Word: ops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were arraigned eleven other high Gay-pay-oo chiefs. In Russia today the accused always confess when their case is of importance to the State. Last week's trial was no exception. According to the State's press handout, the Gay-pay-oo chiefs confessed that the Gay-pay-oo knew Stalin's friend Kirov was threatened with assassination, did nothing to prevent...
...story of the illegal search for political mastery followed the same course in the mid-19th Century that it follows today. Like Adolf Hitler, Louis Napoleon staged his own opéra boufle "beer hall putsch." Louis' fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short...
Presenting its third concert of the season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play before a Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The following program has been arranged: Hill Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 34 Toch "Big Ben," Variation Fantasy on the Westminster Chimes Brahms Symphony in E minor, No. 4, Op...
...until recently has op- posed any other than Harvard graduates to act as head coach, I have been compelled by force of circumstances to make an about face and to recommend now the selection of a type of head football coach such as Fritz Crisler at Princeton. If Lou Little is available for head coach at Harvard I strongly urge his appointment. I am familiar with his work at Georgetown, where he developed some really great teams. His record at Columbia speaks for itself. Harvard needs an experienced and successful coach. If we cannot win some of our major games...
Negro Mitchell got his chance when Negro De Priest's white Democratic op ponent in Chicago's Black Belt died during the campaign and Mr. Mitchell was named in his place. A native of Alabama, Arthur Mitchell went to Tuskegee Institute, served as the late great Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover...