Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow to every city, town and village in the vast Union, there to be posted up, enlivened by cartoons which the government supplied. Within a few hours after the trial began every cinema theatre in Moscow was showing newsreels of this real-life drama. All Russia was enabled by every means which Science could devise to learn-what...
...Tartars too, Uzbeks, Little Russians, White Russians, Tadjiks, Chinese students and a group of Communist literati from New York, just arrived but exulting with the boldest. Thus last week Moscow staged one of the largest, most impressive demonstrations in Soviet history, as her second, epochal Counter-Revolutionary Trial began (TIME...
Sowing Crisis. The confession of the No. 1 prisoner, Professor Leonid Ramzin, until his arrest Chairman of the All-Union Heating Institute, was too long to be got through at a single session of the Court. Standing primly before the microphone Professor Ramzin began in teacherish tones, "I am guilty. I do not know what to say in my defense," then spoke for three hours while everyone smoked...
...first interview he has ever granted to the Occidental Press (TIME, Dec. 1). Hero of this scoop was Correspondent Eugene Lyons of the United Press. Last week the United Press proudly relayed Correspondent Lyons' story of his story, harking back more than a year when he began his siege of Stalin's stubborn silence...
Reporter Lyons, 32, short, dark, was educated in the college of the city of New York and Columbia University. He began newspaper work on the Erie, Pa. Dispatch-Herald, later joined the New York Bureau of Tass (Russian news) Agency. Three years ago he was made manager of the United Press Bureau in Moscow. There, for diversion, his beauteous U. S. wife has played in two or three Russian films...