Word: davidovich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came at 9:19, surrounded by agents of the Secret Police. Wan and pallid, he strode impassively into the station, stepping quickly, clad in an old, serviceable military cloak. At that symbol the crowd cheered, remembering that Lev Davidovich Trotsky had appeared thus when he organized and commanded the Red Army of 1,500,000 men. Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears...
Correspondents in Moscow believed for several days that what had happened was the exile to Siberia and other remote Russian provinces of all the opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party and from Parliament (TIME, Dec. 26 and Jan. 16). Chief Oppositionist Lev Davidovich Trotsky, famed "father of the Red Army," chief disciple of Lenin, was reported banished to remote Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, whence comes caviar...
...hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors from the Baltic Fleet sought out M. Trotsky, commanded his secretary to tell him to come out and be drubbed. No weakling, Leon Davidovich Trotsky (née Bronstein) rushed forth, stood with folded arms before the sailors, cried: "Ha, you want Trotsky! Well, Comrades, here...
...Paul Davidovich and Dr. Willem J. Luyten will be the speakers in an astronomical colloquium to be held in Building A of the Harvard College Observatory at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon...
...Paul Davidovich will speak on "The Spectrum of Nova Pictoris" and Dr. William F. Luyten on "Some Applications of Statistics to Astronomy" tomorrow afternoon in the Harvard College Observatory at 4.30 o'clock...