Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Moscow came no equally authoritative counter charge. Soviet troops were admittedly mobilizing to menace Manchuria like a pair of tongs closing in from Manchuli and Vladivostok. Russian newspapers in the U. S. received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he...
Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper...
Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators...
Correspondent Knickerbocker, unimpressed, went to the Berlin military police with his story. Very quickly it was proved that the Borah letters were forgeries, that bald M. Orloff himself had forged them. Imperial Orloff, whose secret traffickings enabled him to own two houses in Berlin and a country place on the...
Black's Grandstand. To watch the 1,200-mi. air race around England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant...