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That party, celebrating a major achievement of the Five-Year Plan, took place three years ago (TIME, May 12, 1930). Last year Big Bill was made a Vice-Commissar of Railways. His U. S. past and the "Bill" by which everyone called him was glossed over in official statements mentioning that he had really been born in Russia, that his real name contained no "Bill" but is Vladimir Sergeyevich Shatov. "We'll show the world," cried Vice-Com-missar Shatov, "what railway-building...
...last week Comrade Shatov was supposed to be Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...
...around a fallen man. The explanation seemed to be that the Five-Year Plan period, when the Soviet Union's whole stress was on building, expansion and quantity (rather than quality) is now definitely over. Russia has entered a less exuberant phase in which she must nurse her railways and try to make her plants efficient. Blatant "drivers" like Big Bill are giving place to quiet specialists. After the shake-up last week Premier Molotov of the Soviet Union signed a decree to encourage all Russia's railway workers by granting them an increased food supply...
...Times-Picayune's Photographer Hardy S. Williams. In the morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator...
...Times-Picayune's Photographer Hardy S. Williams. In the morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator...