Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy that there is a Stalin and that he will continue to lead the country!" cried Prisoner Sergei Mrachkovsky, gilding the lily. Even this was capped by Prisoner Kamenev whose second and final lecture at the trial was a deliberate incitement to Communists abroad to go and assassinate Trotsky. "Zinoviev and I are dead!" cried Kamenev. "Trotsky remains the only person to guide terroristic activities against Stalin. The sooner his hands are checked the better." Judge Ulrich, who has the reputation of having handed out more Death sentences than any other jurist in the world, left the court to cogitate...
...fellow Communist assassinated in Leningrad that city's Party boss, Dictator Stalin's ''Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Stalin is supposed to have grilled the assassin personally...
...famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra who retired at the close of the past season is (1 Dimitri Mitropoulos, 2 Arturo Toscamni, 3 Sergei Koussevitzky, 4 Eugene Ormandy, 5 Leopold Stokowski...
High on a long list of recent foreign importations is Russia's Sergei Kalmikoff, who weighs 235 lb., sports a straw-colored beard, a closely-cropped skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took...
...than made up for Hartford's apathy. In Hartford Stokowski played a Bach encore "because you seem to love Bach so." In Boston he played four encores because Bostonians clamored for them. Gist of Stokowski's speech in Boston was his admiration for Boston's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony "from which I learned so much when I first came to the United States...