Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The...
rolled into Moscow last week. Interior decorators from Manhattan had just finished doing over the Spasso palace, (built in Tsarist times by a Russian mercantile mogul), to suit Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies. In swept the Davieses' corps of six servants from Manhattan, headed by an authoritative butler...
Impressed, the customs officials bowed obsequiously when Ambassador Davies told them he had lost the Soviet permit enabling him to pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours...
Outside the cozy court, the citizens of Moscow were being warmed up by the Soviet press which invariably, before and during every big Red trial, assumes that all the accused are guilty, blackens their characters with its highest-powered adjectives, and ordinarily writes of the more distinguished prisoners as if...
Diplomats boil over dearth of boiled shirts. The Moscow diplomatic corps has no clean stiff shirts, and no one in Moscow will promise better than thirty day service. U. S. Ambassador Davies is the only plenipotentiary with his own laundry, and he is precipitating the next world war by refusing...