Word: praesidium
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...votes were unanimous by show of hands, accompanied by rousing cheers. By this means the Supreme Soviet, before adjourning sine die, elected the Praesidium. This body of 37 members is not a cabinet. Indeed, members of the Russian Cabinet, called the Council of People's Commissars, are barred from the Praesidium. Stalin- not a member of the Cabinet, therefore eligible-was elected an ordinary member of the Praesidium. Although "where Stalin sits is the head of the table," amiable old Mikhail Kalinin was elected chairman of the Praesidium, i. e., "President of Russia...
...convention's praesidium of 37 were elected, amid loud cheers, ten honorary world members, including Josef Stalin and George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian Communist tried for the Reichstag fire...
Docile, the Conference began by re-electing to the Praesidium, or "Standing Committee" of the Party, Joseph Stalin, "political boss of Soviet Russia,". and 36 of his henchmen-among them Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, War Minister K. E. Voroshilov, and Vice President Nikolai Bukharin of the Third International...
Cowed Oppositionists. President Gregory Zinoviev of the Third International was not elected to the Praesidium. Neither was once omnipotent Leon Trotsky. Recently in open opposition to "Boss" Stalin, they have been forced to desist from obstructing him (TIME, Oct. 25), and figuratively whipped into a corner. During the week M. Zinoviev, "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," archadvocate of violent onslaughts upon Capitalism, growled to his intimates, "Henceforth my work with the Third International is impossible...