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Word: mier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager's secretary blenched. The shopper was indeed Daniel G. Sulimov, since 1930 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, comprising nine-tenths of the Soviet Union. Before becoming the equivalent of Pre- mier of an area two and one-half times as big as the U. S., he had headed the Soviet commission inspecting U. S. railways, had been Vice Commissar of Transportation. When the manager of Store 134 came cringing into view, Premier Sulimov roared, "Do you call this soap?" and hurled the handful on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Premier Goes Shopping | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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