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Temporarily joining Harvard's social scientists this year will be three full professors, two from America and one from Russia. From Russia, where he was formerly professor of Law in the Economics Faculty of the Polytechnicum, St. Petersburg, comes Nikolai S. Timasheff, leading European criminologist. At Harvard he will instruct Sociology students in the social bases of legal phenomena, in "Modern European Social Reforms," and in "Individualized Treatment of Crime and Criminals...
...James Ramsay MacDonald would have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted as the literary patriarch of the Revolution...
...Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described by Communists as a boon conferred by the late great Nikolai Lenin. In Russia last week it was like the exploding of a bombshell when Prosecutor Philipov strongly intimated that under the new Bolshevik legal structure there will be "Prohibition of Abortion." Higher in the Communist hierarchy than Moscow Prosecutor .Philipov is the Public Prosecutor for the whole Soviet Union, smart...
Last week Works Progress Administration's Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff, onetime conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, reported on what he had done so far with $7,641,814 of Federal funds allocated to his project. To WPA's payroll were transferred 15,639 players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses...