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...Reds and continued until 1925 as Commissar of the Red Army, which he created. In more recent times Yagoda, acting under orders from Trotsky, caused three of Russia's most eminent physicians and scientists to murder outright or hasten the deaths of 1) famed Writer Maxim Gorky; 2) Yagoda's predecessor as secret police chief, Menzhinsky, and 3) Kuibishev, who was chief of the First Five-Year Plan...
Recently the Soviet Government has forced foreign consulates to close down in manyparts of the Soviet Union. Finally it demanded that the British consul and his staff at Leningrad clear out. Last week the British Foreign Office quietly informed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone can get a British visa will be His Britannic Majesty's Consulate in Leningrad...
...individual linens, separate glass-enclosed cubicles in which to lie. Visitors should be kept away from the infants for the first three weeks, the time when they are most vulnerable to virulent diarrhea. Above all, babies should nurse only from the breast when at all possible. The old medical maxim that cow's milk is good for calves and mother's milk is good for babies was strikingly upheld by the fact that the babies who died at St. Elizabeth's were all bottle...
...When a president dies, hire a new office boy," is the pet maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide...
...Near East recognizing the papacy and all Roman Catholic dogma. They are not to be confused with the Orthodox churches of the Near East which, likewise, are often lumped together as "Greek." Uniat churches exist because of a Catholic policy similar to the old trust builder's maxim: If you can't lick them, join them. The Roman Church absorbed numerous Orthodox faithful by allowing them to keep their customs, the discipline of their clergy, and their rites. To U. S. Catholics, Uniat Catholics of the Greek Rite were almost unknown until some 50 years ago. Then they...