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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
...kept them occupied with three whole days of celebrations. Proud Ghegs from the north, with their trousered Moslem women, bare-foot Tosks from the south forgot their feuds as they guzzled each other's mulberry brandy and coarse wine from bulging goatskin flasks. When enthusiasm lagged on the second day, the Government footed the bill for mass weddings for 150 couples and the goatskins were filled & refilled...
...recent affluence-the Big House at Sneden's Landing, N. Y., the luxurious Lincoln town car and chauffeur-annoy him. First of all, Welles insists, this has nothing to do with his Mercury triumphs; for years he has had these things by virtue of his radio earnings; and second, the Big House isn't such a big house (eight rooms and four nooks, $115 a month), the car is secondhand, and the chauffeur exists because Welles himself doesn't drive. Says he: "I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that...
Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis...
...most distinguished Washington Correspondence of the year New York Timesman Arthur Krock won his second Pulitzer Prize, $500. This one was for an exclusive interview in which President Roosevelt discussed his political philosophy...