Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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rolled into Moscow last week. Interior decorators from Manhattan had just finished doing over the Spasso palace, (built in Tsarist times by a Russian mercantile mogul), to suit Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies. In swept the Davieses' corps of six servants from Manhattan, headed by an authoritative butler who engaged seven Russian servants...
...gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice in the world. There was even plenty of tea for the prisoners, and the Soviet Supreme Court has always functioned amid a blue haze of Russian cigaret smoke...
...Court of St. James; 4) N. I. Muralov, leader of the proletarians who seized Moscow while Lenin & Trotsky were seizing Petrograd in 1917 and for many years Soviet Commandant of the Moscow Garrison. At the unique sort of trial which is Communism's gift to Jurisprudence, every Russian present, as well as the experienced Moscow diplomatic corps and foreign press, knew last week that the charges which Prosecutor Vishinsky was going to make in an hour-long lecture would immediately afterward be repeated by the prisoners as each confessed to what he had been accused of with only trifling...
...veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does not in the great majority of cases ever reach a courtroom. Scores, even hundreds of Russians are quietly executed after the Soviet police have satisfied themselves that Death is required. In perhaps 1% of cases involving crimes for which Death...
looking ''engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In Chicago last week on his seventh...