Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that France is lost if she does not work normally," reiterated Premier Daladier last week as he reminded French Communists that in Russia there is no 40-hour week and Soviet workers toil much longer hours...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either...
...Like Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Mexico is officially a one-party nation; i.e., its party is an unofficial organ of the Government...
Such at least was the story-not inconsistent with the methods of Japanese police -sent out last week over the wires of Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Tass backed up its torture tale by declaring that the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo has been ordered to protest the treatment given the captain and crew of Refrigerator No. 1. Since Russians and Japanese are still arguing over their bitter full-dress battle on the Manchukuoan border earlier this month, the affair of Refrigerator No. 1 did little to promote the amicable spirit needed for a settlement...
...Moscow for the Soviet's annual air show flew Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...