Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently rumored in countries adjoining the Soviet Union last week that Dictator Stalin's hated onetime creature Yagoda had been arrested only upon demand of the Red Army in the person of its popular leader Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and Marshals Blucher, Yegorov, Tuckachevsky, and Budenny. Up to now the Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit...
...Chairman Farley had a two-edged paragraph: "I cannot work for the election of any candidate masquerading as a Democrat who is a Democrat in name only and who neither understands nor cares at all for the fundamental principles [of[ the Democratic Party. . . ." Now Senator Burke is the marshal of the pro-Court forces on the Judiciary-Committee. As such he clashed last week with bumbling Senator Dieterich and went so far as to say, ". . . His questions do more good than any I could ask." His best clash occurred one afternoon with Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming...
...send men out from my orchard to sell fruit and instruct them in one of these hard-boiled towns to be sure and leave the Marshal and Mayor a bushel of fruit...
Majority Leader Robinson, who until President Roosevelt's return had been one of the most vehement in calling for action on the Sit-Down, leaped into action as Administration field marshal, bellowed that Senator Byrnes was proposing to turn striking miners and their families who lived in company houses "out into the storm," that a Senate pronouncement would only "inflame" Labor disputes, demanded that the amendment be referred to. the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee for study...
...this, Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, Soviet Defense Commissar, replied with a speech promising that "when there shall be no further need for uniforms, the Red Army will put on civilian clothes!" After dinner the Red Army leaders were entertained by an Embassy showing of the musicomedy cinema Rose Marie. Three nights previously other Bolshevik bigwigs had been regaled with Naughty Marietta. "Each soldier in the Soviet Army," Red guests told Host Davies, whose wife's fortune came from food, "now receives 5,000 calories per day, whereas in the Tsarist Army the ration was but 3,300 calories...