Word: revolutionists
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Died. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, 64, one of two Jews* holding top-ranking posts in the U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production boss (he directed the evacuation of industry to the east) and chief inspector of the Soviet economy until illness forced his retirement in 1950. Red leaders, busy at their purge of Jews, announced to the world their "profound grief " at Mekhlis' death and staged an elaborate state funeral...
...Koba was Stalin's pseudonym as a revolutionist in his younger days...
...Hall in the Harvard Yard and proceeded to make a name for himself. It was Harvard College's most vivid moment. Eliot was president. William James of still teaching. Fellow students of the famous class of 1910 were the poet T. S. Eliot, emotional Heywood Broun, the romantic revolutionist Jack Reed, the scene designer Robert Edmond Jones. They were all going to make their mark in the world by casting down evil from its lofty seat. A friend once introduced young Lippmann as the future President...
...this point, The Birth of a World becomes a pell-mell yarn. Time & again, Revolutionist Bolivar's army was reduced to a handful of men. With despairing patience he wrote articles and letters urging military discipline, an end to jealousy and anarchy among the patriot leaders. "Our army," he wrote, "is a sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards...
Alexandro Feodorovich Kerensky, social revolutionist who helped overthrow the Czar in 1917, intends to reveal "the real object of the Kremlins international policy" in an address at the New Lecture Hall on April 21 at 8 p.m., John H. Mansfield '51, chairman of the United Nations Council announced yesterday...