Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on the largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov...
When the Frango put in at its pier off Staten Island, N. Y., Lieutenant Midtylng hopped ashore, made his report. Twenty-four hours later U. S. officials seized the ship's $500,000 cargo, sealed it, filed a libel action against 423 tons of her whale...
...Alexander's piping, to an intent ear, hit some strident notes. Although she declared she is seeking "a renaissance of religious consciousness" in the U. S., by her candid admission the purpose of that renaissance would be simply to put new life into Capitalism. A religious revival, said Miss Alexander, could well be brought about by arousing people's fears, by showing them that, if they do not behave themselves, an authoritarian U. S. Government will teach them how. Miss Alexander's message: "Have a religious experience for your country's sake." Dr. Alexander has lectured...
...Organizer Charles Cain as he and seven other Guilders were roughed up and carted off to a police station, Hearst trucks as they backed up to the line and kept their motors running. Strikers promptly dubbed handsome Publisher Merrill C. ("Babe") Meigs of the American "Monoxide Meigs." Two pickets put on gas masks. Last January the Chicago Hearst management and the Guild signed a one-year contract. Now pending are over 60 charges of contract violations preferred by the Guild. Meantime, two new A. F. of L. newspaper unions (Editorial Association of Chicago, headed by Herex Rewrite Man Larry Kelly...
...Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby...