Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week had definitely hit their stride in Moscow. Considering that most diplomats and their wives in the Soviet capital figure as "Capitalist spies" in the Communist press, it was notable last week that such prominent Soviet wives as Perfume Trust Manager Zhemchuzhina* and the spouse of Assistant Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky should have taken Mrs. Davies socially in tow on a round of Moscow creches and factory restaurants while Ambassador Davies, his daughter Emlen and his valet went off to inspect the Ukraine. It was not that Mrs. Davies, the extremely rich General Foods heiress, is known in Russia...
...Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have been noted (TIME, Jan. 8, 1934), but Nikolai Lenin did not die until 1924, Leon Trotsky was not fully mastered and exiled until 1929, and the first correspondent to interview the No. 1 Bolshevik after he reached the plenitude of J. STALIN, DICTATOR, was Eugene Lyons in 1930, followed by Walter Duranty a few days afterward...
Into the Kremlin's gleaming white Hall of Soviets, where the Throne of Tsar Nicholas II has been replaced by a statue of Nikolai Lenin, crowded happily last week 2,500 Soviet Congressmen & Congresswomen from every part of European & Asiatic Russia. On the stroke of 5 p. m. a big-boned Asiatic in an unadorned Army tunic entered. Up leaped the 2,500 to cheer Joseph Stalin uproariously for 30 minutes and again at every pause during a two-hour speech in which the Dictator presented for ratification Russia's much discussed new Constitution (TIME, June...
Officially in Moscow declared the Commissar for Justice, Nikolai Vassilievich Kryleriko: "Those in the Soviet Union who want to restore the Capitalist system will get from our new Constitution neither freedom of the press nor of speech...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...