Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, at a meeting of political commissars, Lenin passed a note to Dzerzhinsky "How many vicious counter-revolutionaries are there in our prisons?" Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
...gratitude we owe to our "fearless, clear-headed leaders who call a spade a spade and recognize Communism for the hideous conspiracy it is." I was not quite sure who he was referring to, but I assume he means the Republican majority in the Congress. It is interesting to note that the Senate Republicans split 24-23 on the most important tool of aid to Europe, ERP, and it was the Democratic minority that brought about passage of the legislation. Or, perhaps Mr. Bracken is referring to the magnificent stand the Southern Democrats are making to preserve that grand...
...official explanation has yet been issued for the mighty miscalculation of either the bank or the Law School. Rumors say that an anonymous clerk has always wanted to be a lawyer. Others note that New Brunswick has never been famous for 20-20 vision...
...last week, a melancholy little note straggled into TIME'S Manhattan offices. It came from the editor of Der Optimist, a small Viennese weekly. Said the note: "We are sorry, that we have to announce you already today, that our paper will stop to appear with the ist of March. The time does not yet seem to be favorable for papers with optimistic titles -at least not in Central Europe...
Last week, the rhymester, 47, wrote a suicide note leaving his worldly goods to his second wife. Then he jumped from his 12th-floor Manhattan studio. Don Wahn's last heartbroken lines appeared a day later...