Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing made this year's birthday parade different from all others. For the first time Russians were able to see the fane of Communism, the final, stone tomb of Nikolai Lenin. For years the "Communist saint" rested in a glass case under a truncated pyramid of weathered oak while state architects argued what form the permanent tomb should take...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, whom Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday called "a dirty foreigner," because of his promise to give $100 to the anti-Prohibition work of the Crusaders (TIME, Oct. 27), doubled his subscription, fired back at Sunday before a Crusader luncheon at Cleveland: "I have lived here 30 years as a citizen of the United States. . . . Whatever career I have had has been here. ... I have yet to see the inside of a jail. Yet this gentleman [Evangelist Sunday] says that ... all of foreign blood are 'foreigners and dirty crooks'. ... I am disgusted...
Cleveland will begin, its 13th season Oct. 16 under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. In January it is anticipated that the Orchestra will move into its own hall, given by John L. and the late Mrs. Severance...
Sympathetic, the judge before whom Comrade Nikolai appeared ordered further investigation of his case, ignored the legalistic prosecutor who stormed, "Nonsense! A clear instance of counter-revolution...
Significance: Dictator Josef Stalin is now easing up on his stern program of forcing independent peasants onto the Government's collective farms; examples are beginning to be made of over-zealous patriots like stupid Nikolai Konekov...