James William Anderson III is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television host. His soft-spoken singing voice earned him the nickname "Whispering Bill" from music critics and writers. As a songwriter, his compositions have been covered by various music artists since the late 1950s.

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1937Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.^[†]

Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, collectivization of agriculture, intensification of class conflict, a cult of personality, and subordination of the interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, deemed by Stalinism to be the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. After Stalin's death and the Khrushchev Thaw, a period of de-Stalinization began in the 1950s and 1960s, which caused the influence of Stalin's ideology to begin to wane in the USSR.

Headlines from November 1, 1937

STALIN MAKES PLEA TO RESTORE MORALE; Dictator in Informal Talk to 400 Technicians Cites Need for Mutual Confidence

BRONX FIGHT CLOSE; Size of the La Guardia Plurality Is Crucial--Harvey Hard Pressed

ITALY SAID TO JOIN ERLIN-TOKYO PACT; Three-Power Anti-Communist Accord Is Expected to Be Signed in Rome

TRADE BOARD ASKS WIDENING OF LAWS TO BAR MONOPOLY; Renews Plea for Clayton Act Change to Curb Buying Out of Competitors

JAPANESE ADVANCE WEST OF SHANGHAI AT SOOCHOW CREEK; Invaders Are Reported to Have Lost 2,000 in Vain Attack in Shansi Province

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