Word: nicolais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station WGZBX, a midget symphony which ingeniously describes lobby confusion at a studio, interference and "static, a slumber hour, microphone hysteria. Another $5,000 was divided between Max Wald, a native of Litchfield, Ill., living in Paris; Carl Eppert of Milwaukee, Florence Grandland Galajikian of Maywood, Ill., Nicolai Berezowsky of Manhattan. President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of N. B. C. made the awards at the broadcast...
Stalin Plan, with its reversion to capitalist methods, was hailed by editors as a step in the breakdown of Communism. Steel Man Stalin had his propagandists out in force last week to deny this imputation. In London, chief Stalin interpreter was none other than Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin. Two years ago Bukharin, a member of the Politburo, horse-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking...
Inspector General. The smalltown bureaucrats of Russia 94 years ago were infuriated and alarmed when a play called Kevizor was produced in their country to expose "all that was bad in Russia." Playwright Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow 16 years later after further distinguishing himself with the great novel Mertvuiya Dushi (Dead Souls), and after exhausting himself on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed...
Last week marked the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Third International, the Communist organization which in 1919 broke off from the Socialist Second International under the leadership of Nicolai Lenin. Under orders from Moscow, Communists throughout the world celebrated in their own peculiar fashion...