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Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
...tell you that this week's issue of TIME with its inside story about the flight of Hess to England, the Germans' demands on Russia and Marshal Timoshenko on the front cover with the big iron man Stalin is journalism of the very highest order...
...come we have Stalin and Timoshenko on the cover...
...clock in the morning, the 800,000 printed covers were just so much waste paper. The Emir plates had been torn off the press. The Stalin-Timoshenko cover plates had been bolted on in their place, a special extra crew of press men had been routed out of bed to come down and rush the makeready, and a complete foundry force had been summoned by telephone to make 210 additional press plates on Sunday double time to make it possible to print the Timoshenko cover 16 up-65,000 an hour...
...winter of 1939, when Russia's ill-trained and ill-equipped troops were led to a freezing massacre in the snows of Finland, the campaign was finally saved by the use of better troops following the shrewd tactics of Generals Grigory Kulik, Boris M. Shaposhnikov and Semion Timoshenko. General Timoshenko was widely credited with the chief part in the salvage...