Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interesting fact about the manufacture of Michael Strogoff is the fact that not only its big scenes-Tartar troops riding across the steppes, rout of the Tsar's regiments by Ogareff's cavalry-but almost all the outdoor sequences were actually filmed in Siberia, giving the picture a photographic validity that could not possibly have been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German...
Taking this to heart, Secretary Roper began a complete reorganization of the Bureau. Assistant Directors Cone and Martin lost their titles, were "sent to Siberia"-Martin to "study airline operation" in South America, Cone in Europe. Made assistant director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer...
Morally this was a Chinese crisis. Historically, the fate of Eastern Asia might turn on who went Red and who did not. Geographically, there was interposed between China's migratory Red State and Soviet territory in Siberia and Outer Mongolia last week: 1) Japanese-dominated Manchukuo; 2) Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier...
...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...
...with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also in connivance with Japanese and German spies to cede to these countries, after a war which would unseat Dictator Stalin, vast areas of Siberia and the Ukraine...