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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concluded: "For the future there are only two possibilities. Either we pursue our revolutionary policy in organizing the proletarians suppressed in all countries around the working class of the Soviet Union-in this case international capital will attempt to prevent our promotion by all means-or we abandon our revolutionary policy and make a number of concessions to international capital. In the latter case international capital possibly would be willing to assist us to degenerate our Socialist State into a bourgeois republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Speaks | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...expect that him would be a totally tasteless bread pudding of the theatre, containing not even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...strong Worcester Academy nine will invade Soldiers Field this afternoon in an attempt to subdue the 1931 aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER WILL STRIKE AT 1931 | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

Although the authorities in charge of the Harvard side of the scholastic meet with Yale, in an attempt to diminish the publicity attached to the affair, had decided to withhold the names of the ten men who will compete for Harvard against Yale on April 30, they have now altered their decision of three days ago and are publishing the team in today's CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BALANCE OF POWER | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

...Wilson's Attempt to Preserve Neutrality," Professor J. P. Baxter, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/24/1928 | See Source »

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