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...Trotsky exercised at the height of his power, his official position was merely that of Commissar for War. Since tousle-haired Trotsky's ignominious exile last year (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928), Russia's Commissars for War have been notable for their reticence. By order of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin they have been spared all unnecessary publicity...
Basically antireligious, as was the French calendar of 1793, Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin counted heavily on this economic aspect of his "Eternal Calendar" to fulfill his promise to increase Russia's industrial production 35% in the next twelve months (TIME, Sept...
...Austrian army, firm friend and ardent follower of Policeman Schober; Minister of Commerce Hainisch, Austria's beloved, white-bearded onetime President, whose pet cow Bella is world famed; and Minister of Finance Redlich. When the name of the new Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term as Austrian Minister of Finance in the short-lived Lammasch Cabinet of ex-Emperor Karl. Last week reporters found...
Daring, farsighted, iron-willed Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin last week unfolded yet another phase of his famed Five-Year Program (TIME, Sept. 9 et ante), designed to make Red Russia economically independent of the rest of the world by 1933. Today the Soviet Union grows in Russian Turkestan 50% of the cotton it consumes, imports the rest from the U. S. and Egypt. How much more cotton can Turkestan be made to yield? For weeks the Soviet Supreme Economic Council has been thrashing out that question with a sagacious and experienced U. S. citizen, Engineer Arthur Powell Davis...
...architecture, Vienna's Josef Hofmann declares: "Skyscrapers are un- luckily marred by unharmonious architecture; on the other hand, a granary of the Washburn-Crosby Co., built in Minneapolis in 1920, is an absolute model" [of the "modern intention" of "letting a construction speak for itself...