Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sergei Koussevitzky, who is returning to America after opening the Sibelius Festival in Helsingfors, Finland, will begin his twelfth season with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as he opens the Friday afternoon Saturday evening series on October 11 and 12. The Monday evening series of six concerts will open on October 28, and the Tuesday afternoon series on November 5. The concerts under the auspices of Harvard University will be played in Sanders Theatre as usual, commencing on October...
...form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist and his nondescript girl guide but potent Comrade Sergei Meshki, for years Chief of Intourist in Moscow and widely credited with being an official of the OGPU Spy Service...
...favors of over 300 girl guides, and breaking the resistance of girls who repelled him by threatening to fire them from their jobs (softest in the Union) or to incriminate them with the OGPU on some trumped-up charge. Convicted after swift trial by a Red Court, Sultanesque Sergei got ten years at hard labor...
...Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei may be tortured into making a statement of some sort tending to incriminate his father in Soviet eyes...
...arrest of pure vengeance," declared Mme Trotsky. "Sergei never occupied himself with political questions. . . . The authorities allowed members of our family either to accompany us when we were exiled or to remain in the U. S. S. R. Sergei decided to remain so as not to be torn away from his scientific work. . . . With two other colleagues he published recently a special work entitled Light Gas Generators of Automobile Tractor Type. This book, published by the Scientific Automobile Tractor Institute, was warmly received by the outstanding specialists in the field. ... I will not speak of the methods by which Stalin...