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...People's Commissars founded 29 annual first prizes of 100,000 rubles ($20,000) each for outstanding achievements in "medicine, law, science, military science, theatre, inventions, while 4,150 Stalin student scholarships were announced. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of "Hero of Socialist Labor...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
John Reed '10, in whose honor the Society was named, was one of the world's best known Communists. As a war correspondent in Russia, he joined with Lenin and Trotsky, fighting during the Bolshevist Revolution. When Reed was killed in action, the Russians buried him in the Kremlin...
During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful...
...turned student heads. The names of the leaders--"V. Leggakacheff, S. Pullizpantzoff, X. Wachtoff, and D. Ginsburgovitch"--have already been revealed. It remains only for the crusading "Yale News" to make university authorities fully aware of the "White menace" and to send all remmants of Czaritst Imperialism back to Lenin...