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...political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard, a Red general 13th on the Red Army's ranking list, big, hearty Klimentiy Voroshilov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Poison is the weapon; the motive, gain. The author first shows the victim's death, then the murderer's modus operandi. Inspector French is brought forward on the trail. In the ensuing hunt the reader feels himself the quarry. Explanation of detection follows, with Inspector French being raised in rank once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...regard to your recent reports on treatment of carbon monoxide poison with methylene blue please look up Vol. 100 No. 25 page 2,001 of the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...Hamlet says, "Woe to him who at this duel will dip the point into poison. Such a one will surely fall and die by his own treacherous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hamlet Answers from the Grave | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

...nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Potala | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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