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...paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked down on the Ukranian State shop. It promptly disgorged 4,200 rubles and this "refund" NKVD agents beamingly carried to Capitalist Davies in his private...
...with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...
...natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners...
...among Big Reds. They, although seemingly much closer than Zinoviev or Kamenev to the conspiracy, were "provisionally expelled" from the Party, may at any time be reinstated. Unknown outside Russia, the favored four were said to include Paul Petrovsky whose father is Big Red Gregory Petrovsky, boss of the Ukranian Socialist Soviet Republic, No. 2 state in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Died. "General" Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, "a Russian," who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews...