Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that in Tallinn once lived that popular Old Bolshevik gaffer Mikhail Kalinin who today is frontman for secretive Joseph Stalin in the role of Soviet President. "Look there, comrades!" cried the political commissar, "Over there you can see where Mikhail Ivanovich once worked as a mechanic...
President: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin...
...life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices" of his predecessor, Commissar Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
...independence in 1918, young Beck became a captain, then a major, in the new Polish Army. He was one of the first selected by Marshal Pilsudski for the new Polish Military Staff College. In the war with Soviet Russia in 1920, when Soviet forces under the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachavsky pursued the Polish Army to the gates of Warsaw, the young officer was first a colonel of horse artillery, then commander on the Lithuanian-White Russian frontier. Later he became military attache in Paris. That period in Colonel Beck's career was ended abruptly by the French, who asked...