Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...joined Russia's radical movement in 1894 and aligned himself with the Social Democratic Party in 1898. He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903. His first contact with revolutionary bigwigs came when he attended a Party powwow in Vienna. Leon Trotsky noticed him in passing; Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland, set him to work writing an article on the Marxist theory of governing minorities. It was in signing this article that he first used the signature "J. Stalin." "We have here...
...Pacific Gas & Electric Co., with unpaid loans totaling $2,677,310. Next was a group of contractors and other unsecured creditors, to whom the Fair owed $1,464,913. Decision of about 65% of the creditors (including the banks, P. G. & E., Standard Oil) was to take their licking, split up some $650,000 coming to them (about 23? on the dollar), and have no more to do with the Fair...