Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slated for the great honor of election to the Party's Central Committee by the Congress last week was another Jew, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. A few years ago Stalin, after he ousted Jew Leon Trotsky, was markedly opposed to admitting Jews into high Soviet office, but with Kaganovich now his right hand man and Litvinoff wearing the laurels of his triumphant Washington visit. Russia's Dictator rated last week as benignly pro-Semite...
...past 30. Just when he abandoned his real name of Jacob Simon Herzig no one knows. His youth was punctured with one jail term for grand larceny and another for forging his father's name to a check. Shortly after the turn of the century he founded Maxim & Gay, "Turf Information Bureau," in Manhattan. His "information" was good and he often sold 5,000 tips a day at $5 each. Having a great love for the horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned...
...Cheered chubby, astute Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, fresh from his triumph at Washington...
...their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic and full of statistics, who signs decrees for the State while Stalin signs them for the Party. Stalin's Front Man, gay and juicy old President Mikhail Kalinin, whom Ambassador Bullitt called "charming." Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff whose bright-eyed children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds the Red Army's oldtime War Lord...
...years ago. Part of Armenia is a Soviet Republic but all Armenians do not relish U. S. S. R. rule. Especially hostile to the Soviet is Tashnag, an organization dedicated to the restoration of the old Armenian Republic. Archbishop Tourian, 54, only churchman at the Manhattan banquet to Maxim Litvinoff last November, was accused of being proSoviet. He aroused factional wrath last summer, on Armenian Day at the Chicago World's Fair, by declining to make a speech until a pro-Soviet Armenian flag was removed. After being ganged last August at a church picnic in Westboro Mass...