Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people has sent them swirling through the streets with shouts which this week would have been "Vive la Czechoslovakie! Vive la Guerre!" but these shouts were not heard. The only French political parties whose organs urged war were those of the minuscule extreme Nationalist Right and Communist Left. Joseph Stalin appeared, to the French, to have taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which...
...awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into an obedient instrument of Joseph Stalin...
News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain. The system was pioneered in Italy and last year Benito Mussolini ordered all busses in the Kingdom converted to burn wood...
...kindling is transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...
...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...