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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week a political crisis. Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin was again openly criticized for the first time since last fall by his incessant rival, Lev Davidovitch Trotzky. Amid the excitement, Sir Robert Hodgson, Chief of the British Mission at Moscow, quietly departed for London with his staff on the Riga Express...
This announcement caused many Spanish news organs to express last week the very latest indignation...
...Century's first section out of New York, smiles at you and your ticket, punches the ticket and conducts the road's 750-ton prize package as far as Buffalo. This he has done for 16 years, returning to Manhattan on the Empire State Express...
...days ago on the platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned...
...deputies wished further to express their sympathy by holding a great mass meeting in the National Theatre, at which Dr. Sacasa might present his views. But President Ricardo Jiminez of Costa Rica refused to allow the deputies to use the National Theatre for this purpose, saying...