Word: voroshilov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mohammed VI. This year Turkey is on the second lap of a Three-Year Plan of economic development supervised by U. S. experts. To her tenth birthday party last week came the second most notable man in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, dashing Red War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov who is definitely more popular though less potent than stern Red Dictator Stalin...
Since the Soviet Union has lived in chronic fear of attack by the Capitalist Powers, one of Russia's most popular figures is "Klim," the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Comrade Klimentiy Efremovich Voroshilov (V). The Red Army is numerically the second strongest in the world (562,000) but Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic...
...Ismet and Turks saw from a special stand below and in front of the stand on which Dictator Josef Stalin stood rocklike and immobile from 9 a. m. until 7 p. m. (with time out for lunch). Sharp on the stroke of 9 a. m., War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov cantered into the Red Square on a sleek bay steed, three Red Army bands blared the "Internationale" and 60,000 troops began an earth-shaking tramp led by picked units of the Ogpu (secret service). New fighting units this year were eight-wheeled "Speed Tanks" mounting two-inch guns...
...Other nations try to provoke us," cried War Minister Voroshilov in the course of a 20-minute speech, "but our nerves are strong enough! We will not be foiled by these provocations. The Red Army will never threaten anyone but will continue to be where it should be when necessary...
...Moscow the Commissar for War, famed Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, supposed to have been hand-picked by Stalin, issued to the excited Red Army this adroit but cautious order...