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...Britain would be a tragedy too. To suit Stalin, the social revolution in Spain must wait or move slowly until threats of war to the Soviet Union from Germany and Japan are ended. Among the busiest of Russians in Leftist Spain are the secret agents of its Gay-Pay-Oo, whose job is ferreting out and suppressing troublesome Trotskyists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: People's Army | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...filling columns in all Caucasian newsorgans. According to the State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Our Sun! | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Gershwin's first song, a complaint entitled When You Want 'em, You Can't Get 'em; When You Got 'em, You Don't Want 'em. He went into vaudeville accompanying Louise Dresser, and later, Nora Bayes. Vivienne Segal plugged his You-oo Just You and There's More to a Kiss Than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Gershwin | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Bawaiian islanders is one of the highest arts ever devised by a savage race. In making the capes thousands of tiny feathers, carefully selected from the plumage of rare mountain birds, were woven in intricate designs. The birds, now extinct because of the feather hunting, were the so-called "oo," "mamo," and "iiwi" birds, and were captured on sticky poles which the hunter baited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

...precisely on this score that we cannot gather a single word. . . . Is it conceivable that neither the examining magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: They Always Confess | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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