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...They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Church of Englander on Reds | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Born in Little Russia in 1879, the son of a Jewish farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious. Arrested for revolutionary activities at 19, he spent two years in prison, then was exiled to Siberia. There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bolshevik Reminiscences | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

During his European exile in Europe Trotsky married again (there had been a friendly separation from his first wife); his present wife is Natalia Ivanovna Sedova. With many another revolutionary Trotsky was in Russia again for the unsuccessful uprising of 1905. He was caught, tried, once again sentenced to Siberia. This time he escaped before he reached his place of exile, got to the railroad by reindeer sleigh. He rejoined his wife, went into exile again in Europe. In Vienna he started the Pravda, famed newspaper. But by this time Trotsky was known to most Foreign Offices as an undesirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bolshevik Reminiscences | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...this is done through the organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk & Cheese | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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