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Word: soviets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Government of the Russian Soviet Republic ("Russia Proper") appointed, last week, an extraordinary "Grain Dictator" and requested the other state governments of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Asiatic & European Russia") to appoint similar officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Moscow "Grain Dictator" is Comrade G. K. Ordijonikidze, who is also one of the three Vice Prime Ministers of the Soviet State.* His duties: to organize the national grain sowing and harvest campaigns, to fix the legal price of grain, to stamp out speculative hoarding or other anti-social procedure. His powers: absolute, and supported by the right to declare in emergency regional Martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin cabled a stern protest to Bucharest, last week, protesting a high-handed sale by the Rumanian Government of some 200 small Soviet steamers and fishing boats, which have been seized in Rumanian waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Since the Prime Minister of Rumania, bearded, bulking, bowed Vintila Bratiano, mortally hates but does not fear the Soviet Power, he ignored Tchitcherin's protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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