Word: berson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close on 1,000 days keen, witty Jan Otmar Berson has been the hard-working Moscow correspondent of Poland's authoritative, official Gazeta Polska and P. A. T.. the official Polish News Agency...
Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...
Scarcely had Gazeta Polska printed this comment on the deceit urged by Helmsman Dimitroff than the Soviet Government gave Jan Otmar Berson 72 hours in which to get out of Russia. Thundered the official Soviet newsorgan Pravda: "When some swindler takes advantage of Soviet hospitality and, despite warnings, dares to insult repeatedly and insolently the dignity of the Soviet people, then he is shown the gate...
...Names were omitted but the girl was advised to "do the right thing and save a lot of unnecessary scandal and gossip . . . involving big men." Last week Zit's proudly announced that Catherine Moylan, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, had returned the jewelry to Dr. Morton I. Berson, that "releases were signed ... all letters destroyed...