Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to "police" Estonia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Finally they faced an invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
...Moscow last week the Red Army celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Four revelations accompanied the celebration. Defense Commissar, "Big Klim" Voroshilov, was responsible for the first...
Revelation No. 3 was deduced from the official Soviet newspapers' omission last week to explain the sensational absence from the Red Army celebration of three prominent Red Generals, one of them Marshal Alexander Yegorov who in May 1937 became First Vice-Commissar of Defense in succession to famed Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky who was executed as a "traitor" (TIME, June 21). The inference was that Yegorov and friends had "disappeared," would soon be liquidated like Admirals Orlov and Sivkov...
Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
...ridden Universal Pictures Co. Inc. is wholesome, rich-voiced, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. When her first featured picture, Three Smart Girls, was started in 1936, Universal, newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed for it. Last week Universal reported itself...