Word: mikhail
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...Died. Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, 70, longtime (1919-46) President of the U.S.S.R'., biographer of Stalin (1,000,000 copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born "Papa" Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia's high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card...
Izvestia's slight, greying, top war cor respondent Ilya Ehrenburg, Red Star's mustached young (30) novelist Konstantin (Days & Nights) Simonov, and Pravda's chunky General Mikhail Galaktionov had arrived the afternoon before, wilted and bleary-eyed from their trip. Now, after a good night's sleep at their Embassy, they were ready for questions...
Seventy-one-year-old Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin resigned as President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet after 27 years in office. From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...
...thinks Russia can find the time oj energy to attack Turkey, move into the Middle East, or farther expand in eastern Europe ought to know more about the great problems and troubles Russia has on her hands at home. They then explain, sounding as if they were quoting President Mikhail Kalinin's speech (TIME, Nov. 19) to Communist Party organizers on how to meet the unrest rising from the relative luxury the Red Army saw in eastern Europe...
Nobody (except Stalin) could say just what Beria's replacement meant, UNO delegates saw a connection with Vice Commissar Vishinsky's unexplained absence from London. Was the Red Army about to blow its top? President Mikhail Kalinin had publicly admitted it would be tough to keep returning soldiers down on the farm (TIME, Nov. 19). Some observers guessed that Trouble Shooter Beria had been given the job of holding down discontent...