Word: zinovi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports to the Sea of Japan, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. In this book London Editor Richard Hough tells how a fleet that...
Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
...party member and that they had seen him at party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael Lee had been cleared in one Commerce Department loyalty check before he became involved recently in a second one. Born in Harbin, Manchuria of Russian parents and christened Ephraim Zinovi Liberman, Lee had failed three times in bids for U.S. citizenship (grounds: he was not of "good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only two months ago, while a subcommittee investigated charges that...