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In 1930, Soviet agents at Amtorg, ostensibly a Soviet trade organization, used their New York political contacts to persuade U. S. military and civilian officials to provide plans and specifications of the Christie tank to the Soviet Union.
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Indeed, a number of communist students loyal to Meyer moved to the Soviet Union when he was fired in 1930.
However, he was re-admitted in 1930 and was one of the few former oppositionists to retain a prominent place within the party, heading the International Information Bureau of the Russian Communist Party Central Committee as well as giving the main address at the First Soviet Writer's Conference in 1934.
According to data from Soviet archives, which were published only in 1990, 1, 803, 392 people were sent to labor colonies and camps in 1930 and 1931.
In 1930 the esteemed Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein went to the United States with fellow director Grigori Aleksandrov to study Hollywood ’ s filmmaking process.
In 1930 the last Siberians were exported as the Soviet government closed the borders of Siberia to external trade.
Patriotic cantatas celebrating anniversaries of events in the Revolution or extolling state leaders were frequently commissioned in the Soviet Union between 1930 and the middle of the century, though these occasional works were seldom among their composers ' best.
When the Soviet agent Pavel Mif arrived in Shanghai to lead the Comintern in China in December 1930, Mif criticized Li's strategy as " left adventurism ", and criticized Zhou for compromising with Li.
During 1930 – 1937, mass starvation in Russia and other parts of the Soviet Union lead to the death of at least 14. 5 million peasants ( including 5 – 7 million in the Holodomor ).
By 1930, the Communist Red Army had established the Chinese Soviet Republic in the provinces of Jiangxi and Fujian around the city of Ruijin, including industrial facilities.
In 1930, Mao claimed a need to eliminate alleged KMT spies and Anti-Bolsheviks operating inside the Jiangxi Soviet and began an ideological campaign featuring torture and guilt by association, in order to eliminate his enemies.
In 1930 Kommunar started to produce the first Soviet harvester Kommunar which was based on the American Holt Caterpillar horse-drawn harvester.
The Soviet Union's robust film industry came out with its first sound features in December 1930: Dziga Vertov's nonfiction Entuziazm had an experimental, dialogueless soundtrack ; Abram Room's documentary Plan velikikh rabot ( The Plan of the Great Works ) had music and spoken voiceovers.
In 1930 and 1931, Liu attended the Third and Fourth Plenums of the Sixth Central Committee, and was elected to the Central Executive Committee ( i. e., Politburo ) of the Chinese Soviet Republic in 1931 or 1932.
Typical examples of collective farms are the kolkhozy that dominated Soviet agriculture between 1930 and 1991 and the Israeli kibbutzim.
The Fair operated until 1930 ; most of its buildings were torn down during the Soviet era, but the Saviour's Cathedral survives.
In 1930, activists from the right-wing Lapua Movement kidnapped him and his wife, attempting to send them to the Soviet Union, but the incident merely hastened the Lapua Movement's demise.
1930 and agents
In 1919, Stone built the Combined Insurance Company of America ( a company providing accident and health insurance coverage ) and by 1930 he had over a thousand agents selling insurance for him across the United States.
In 1930, the US supported the presidential ascension of General Jorge Ubico ( 1931 – 44 ), who, under the guise of public efficiency, installed a national “ March Towards Civilization ”, by which he assumed dictatorial powers, and established a politically repressive régime that featured internal espionage ( agents provocateur, spies, informants ), arbitrary arrest, torture, and execution of political opponents.
A founding member of the Communist Party of the United States of America ( CPUSA ), around 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Soviet intelligence agencies, including the procurement of American passports by means of fraudulent documentation and the recruitment and coordination of the activities of a broad network of agents.
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He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.
The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.
To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.
On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.
A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.
Bradman fulfilled his promise in the 1930 series when he scored 974 runs at 139. 14, which remains a world record Test series aggregate.
His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.
In 1930, Capone's sister Mafalda married John J. Maritote at St. Mary of Częstochowa, a massive Neogothic edifice towering over Cicero Avenue in the Polish Cathedral style.
Professional scholars were impressed by his work and in 1930 he received a grant to study the Nahuatl language in Mexico ; on his return home he presented several influential papers on the language at linguistic conferences.
On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.
For example, in 1930, Russ Westover drew his Tillie the Toiler Sunday page at a size of 17 " × 37 ".
The Central Committee which was elected at the 16th Party Congress ( 26 June – 13 July 1930 ) removed Tomsky and Rykov.
Delaware's all time record high of was recorded at Millsboro on July 21, 1930 ; the all time record low of was also recorded at Millsboro on January 17, 1893.
The epitaph on his tombstone in Göttingen are the famous lines he spoke at the conclusion of his retirement address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians in the fall of 1930.
The day before Hilbert pronounced these phrases at the 1930 annual meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, Kurt Gödel — in a roundtable discussion during the Conference on Epistemology held jointly with the Society meetings — tentatively announced the first expression of his incompleteness theorem.
Aside from a brief change to maroon in 1948 instituted by then head coach Bo McMillin ( influenced by his years as coach at Indiana ), the Lions uniforms have basically remained the same since the team debuted in 1930.
Thomas continued to work as a freelance journalist for several years and during this time remained at Cwmdonkin Drive where he continued to add to his notebooks, amassing 200 poems in four books between 1930 and 1934.
He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.
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