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Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
Died, Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev, 47, vice Premier of the U. S.S.R., vice President of the All-Union Council of People's Commissars, member of the Communist Party Politburo; of arteriosclerosis; in Moscow. A pioneer young Bolshevik, he chairmanned the Gosplan (State Planning .Commission), launched two Five-Year Plans...
...train discharged its passengers safely in the little town, other scientists converging from other parts of U. S. S. R. swelled the throng to nearly 600. All were there to pay high honor to the wrinkled old man for whom the town once called Koslov was renamed, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, "the Burbank of Russia." With pomp and ceremony the title of Honored Scientist of the Republic was conferred upon Comrade Michurin of Michurinsk...
Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
Eyeing the quarrels and troubles of Russia's Communist leaders was elegant Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, from his French villa at Saint-Briac. Chief pretender to the throne of Ah The Russias...