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Driving Russia further & further toward Communism,- Josef Stalin's Communist Party advances by a series of zigzags, first zigging as far to the Left as the people will stand, then zagging a trifle to the Right, easing the strain. Came last week a major zag. Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov signed a sheaf of decrees conferring on Soviet peasants for the remainder of 1932 these boons...
Unquestionably all this pointed to Soviet preparedness for a possible fight with Japan. Josef Stalin's zag all along the line was an advance concession to the Russian people, in case the Communist Party is presently forced to ask them to rally in arms around its regime. Latest reports place the number of Red Army troops concentrated on the Far East frontier at 100,000. Japanese warships will scarcely fire on neutral freight boats bringing to Vladivostok food for the Dictator's soldiers...
Misleading to many is the Moscow Government's "zigzag policy" which Stalin & Co. apply to nearly everything. Zig they go as far to the left as they dare; then zag to the right, biding their time; then zig again further to the left! Last week Moscow's famed Pravda, often the mouthpiece of Josef Stalin, zigged furiously at the kulaks (rich peasants...
...saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...