Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would win. They were stunned at the results. Across Russia, an astonishing 50% of the eligibles voted; out of a total of 707 delegates, 370 were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after it met, the Constituent Assembly was destroyed. Mark Vishniak, senior member of TIME'S Russian desk since 1946, was a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslav, and was elected Secretary of the Constituent Assembly. His retrospective account of what happened the day democracy died in Russia...
...admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian firmness." At the entrance to the auditorium we passed under a third scrutiny. The footfalls of armed men and the clatter of weapons made the colonnaded hall sound like a barracks...
...food since noon; we were all exhausted; we knew that imprisonment or death or exile lay ahead for most of us. At 4:40 a.m. the first session of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly came to an end. We voted to adjourn and voted a special resolution to meet again at 5 in the afternoon...
This policy left Russia with a comfortable and obvious opening to offer oil-development loans and drilling rigs that the state monopolies now get, for-cash, from the U.S. Soviet government officials and South American Communist leaders met in Moscow in November and plotted a new Russian attempt at trade penetration, starting in Brazil. Nikita Khrushchev himself offered oil-drilling equipment to Brazil...
...Kefauver Committee Report on Organized Crime paints Russian-born Meyer Lansky, 55, as one of the six top U.S. hoodlums: bootlegging, gambling on both coasts, many a link to Murder, Inc. From Batista Lansky got a dream decree for enterprising crapshooters willing to invest abroad. The government waived corporate taxes for ten years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that...