Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus everywhere the spirit of Leon Trotsky, exiled from Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also in connivance with Japanese and German spies to cede to these countries, after a war which would unseat Dictator Stalin, vast areas of Siberia and the Ukraine...
...lawyers, and these were busy only with the troubles of small fry. In a general way the object of Prosecutor Vishinsky was to get 17 men condemned to Death by proving that they had conspired against the Soviet Union and to assassinate Dictator Joseph Stalin with Leon Trotsky of Mexico City (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante), who had written great quantities of letters in the hatching of this conspiracy, as would have to be the case, since Comrade Trotsky has not been inside the Soviet Union since...
...Smith." The Al Smith of the Soviet Union is Leon Trotsky. He might have been and Communists in numbers running very high think he ought to have been and should be Dictator of Russia today instead of Stalin. Keynoted Trotsky, who issued a fresh statement every few hours in Mexico on the Moscow trial: "Stalin's crimes put Caesar Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters he was supposed to have written had not yet been produced in Moscow; he once more offered to produce the whole...
Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
Down upon El Paso's 217 bars last week swooped ten inspectors dispatched by the Texas Liquor Control Board to enforce the State law against the sale of hard liquor by the drink. El Paso never took Prohibition very seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought...