Word: maltsevs
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Bender," and with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command...