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...Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, 60, Deputy Premier, holds no specific ministry, will probably continue as the Kremlins roving economic troubleshooter. Last remaining jew in the hierarchy. Born to a poor family in the Ukraine graduated from elementary school became a shoemaker at 14, a Bolshevik at 18 (in 1911). An effective job of handling touchy minorities in Turkestan in 1920 won Stalin's attention and a summons to Moscow. Hard-working practical Kaganovich was sent off in 1925, at the age of 32 to boss the Ukraine, Russia's richest area; there, directed the building of Dneprostroi, first great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: THE OTHER FOUR | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Biggest human cogs dropped from the machine which Stalin is trying to make of Russia were last week the Commissar of Light Industry, Comrade Isidor E. Liubimov and his vice commissars. In the heavy industry sector, just two weeks after being appointed its Commissar, big-nosed Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was furiously turning the Soviet coal industry upside down last week. He fired both Ivan Fesenko and Zhuravlev, respectively the chief and assistant chief of the coal industry for "failing to clean up the last vestiges of sabotage by wreckers and thus, in effect, assisting the Trotskyist-Bukharinist wreckers in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Accent on Youth | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jews Up | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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