Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin. He occupied an unimportant non-political post as head of the Social Economic Publishing House at Moscow...
Amid cheers Comrade Yezhov presented to officials of the Soviet of Moscow the newly completed Moscow-Volga Canal. Some of the sinners redeemed last week had worked also on the Baltic-White Sea Canal (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). When Stalin's great system of convict-dug waterways is completed, it will be possible for a river steamer to go from Moscow to any of five seas bordering Russia-the Caspian, Black, Azov, White and Baltic...
...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
...loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other airmen were ushered into the Kremlin sanctum of Joseph Stalin, who was flanked by Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov, Premier Molotov and other Red bigwigs...
...Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...