Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characteristically STALIN uttered no harangue last week, though the Dictator did acknowledge the plaudits of Moscow's marching million by waving his khaki cap. It was his henchman, the Soviet President, peasant-born Comrade Mikhail Kalinin, who made the speech of the week. Addressing the Moscow Soviet, while Secretive Stalin sat impassive on the platform, Orator Kalinin told all the Russians how well off they are, with particular reference to the U. S. "The American President," cried the Russian President, "acts like an illiterate peasant in the fields waiting for heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity...
...corpse. The struggle between Trotsky and Stalin for supremacy began. It raged for four years, during which time numerous features of the NEP were modified and Soviet life became less Capitalistic, more Socialistic. In line with this trend Trotsky & Friends demanded the wiping out of the kulak or rich peasant. Stalin called their doctrines a "Left Heresy." He secured their expulsion from the Communistic Party in December 1927-then, as the new year opened Stalin proceeded to adopt Trotsky's heresy as his policy, moved ruthlessly to "liquidate the kulak as a class...
First the Cabinet of Premier Alexander Vaida-Voevod resigned. Next smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, onetime peasant, now a lawyer and Peasant Party leader, buried the hatchet of his two-year-old quarrel with King Carol, kissed His Majesty's hand and was gazetted Premier...
...which rivals Byrrh and Dubonnet as an apéritif. It is pressed among the bare hills of a French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide Maillol's first medium was one that must have caused many an old smuggler to raise...
Three days later the Pawley kidnapping took a dramatic turn. Mrs. Pawley's big Alsatian escaped and, footsore and half-starved, found his way back to the home of her father, where he barked and barked. A frightened peasant reported that he had seen Mrs. Pawley hidden in a hut only 30 miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided...