Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Comrade Litvinoff's term abruptly ended, and with his displacement came Europe's sensation of the week. Moscow's radio laconically announced shortly before midnight one night that Comrade Litvinoff had been relieved of his job at "his own request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some...
Chamberlain, answering Moscow's objections before the House of Commons, admitted that the Soviets were suspicious of being drawn into an anti-aggression alignment in which they would be left "holding the bag" if Fuchrer Adolf Hitler's armies should strike castward to obtain more territory for the expanding German Retch...
...newspapers have handled their German "news" recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around. In pot & kettle fashion, Leftist editors have cried that the Rightist press lived on funds from Germany and Italy, while Rightist editors pictured the Leftist press getting gold from Moscow...
...Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
...French-Canadian villager told the tired and shaken Russians where they were by pointing to the spot on their map: Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, 700 miles short of New York, 3,900 miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands...