Word: bolsheviks
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Prime novelty of last year's concert season was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England...
Chinese Unite? As they always do when menaced by Japan, China's weak and wrangling factional governments tried last week to unite. Only last spring the Canton Government was reviling "Nanking's rococo façade" while the Nanking Government denounced Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen as a Bolshevik Red. Both charges were at least half truths, but last week Canton and Nanking found it possible to exchange envoys and draft a secret program for concerted action (TIME, June...
...revolutionist but no Bolshevik, Vladimir Zenzinov was later a member of the Government in the Urals which fought against the Soviets in 1918. When Dictator Alexander Kolchak overthrew the Ural Government Zenzinov escaped, now lives in Paris, foments trouble for the Soviets...
...Russian in Paris tells tall tales of himself, passes as a refugee prince. When his French friend finally disbelieves him the Russian goes home and shoots himself, leaving a letter confessing he was really a Bolshevik executioner...
...point out that by putting 35,000,000 bu. on the already depressed European wheat market the U. S. would be doing the very thing about which it had complained most bitterly against Soviet Russia. Resentful of this foreign criticism, Farm Board Chairman Legge retorted: "Sheer bunk and Bolshevik! No comparison! Russian wheat was sold at prices far below world prices but wheat from the U. S. will not be sold for less than the prevailing world price." He intimated that the Farm Board would get better than world prices for its wheat because of its high quality...