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...U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production boss (he directed the evacuation of industry to the east) and chief inspector of the Soviet economy until illness forced his retirement in 1950. Red leaders, busy at their purge of Jews, announced to the world their "profound grief " at Mekhlis' death and staged an elaborate state funeral in Red Square...
...word about student grievances. Up & down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern, and then reform a few minutes later...
From two city employees he got some potent evidence in his defense. Testified a fire department inspector: P.S. 19 has gone 18 years without a fireman looking it over for possible hazards and violations. Also on the stand: a health department inspector with records showing that 21 sanitary-law infractions discovered in the school are listed as uncorrected...
...members of the crew, 270 refused to answer Inspector Martin's questions. These, plus one known Communist, spent Christmas on board, within sight of Manhattan's glittering lights. The French Line arranged a Christmas dinner and a show (including a female contortionist...
...immigration inspector also went on board the Queen Mary. He reported the crew ready & willing to answer all questions. Said the captain about the inspector: "A splendid bloke . . . The men want to help him. It's to their advantage...