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...political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been...
...Pilsudski and fully as great as that of Italy's Mussolini, has maintained the pose of holding no office whatever in the Soviet Government. He dropped this pose last week. Further to strengthen the position of his lieutenant, "Prime Minister" Vyacheslav Molotov, successor to ousted Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29), Dictator Stalin became officially a member of the Council of Labor & Defense, one of three interlocking councils that run the Soviet Government. At the same time "Prime Minister" Molotov, considered by dispassionate critics a far less able man than the deposed Rykov, received a new assistant in the person...
Most important head to fall was that of lantern-jawed, saturnine Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, President of the Union Council of People's Commissars, or Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. Month after month Rykov's removal has been rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding...
...Point a Single Instance!" To Moscow from London hurried spruce, grey-haired Ed. L. Keen, Vice President of United Press for Europe, and was received by Prime Minister Alexy Rykov of the Soviet Union, the man whom Dictator Josef Stalin is behind...
...Keen did not get a word with M. Stalin. (Even Ivy Lee, peripatetic representative extraordinary, of U. S. Business, has not been able on his Moscow visits to contact with the World's most seclusive Dictator.) But it is news that M. Rykov said to Mr. Keen...