Word: litvinoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question in the Far East, "What will Russia do?", was answered by Ambassador Litvinoff, who said Russia...
...high time the President found his man. Laurence A. Steinhardt returned from Moscow to the U.S. in November, was appointed to the vitally important post of Ankara, Turkey. In Washington is the U.S.S.R.'s highest-powered diplomat, Maxim Litvinoff, onetime Foreign Commissar, onetime Delegate to the League of Nations. Joseph Stalin was waiting for something equally handsome...
Plain-spoken and informal, Bill Batt is the best-liked of all defense officials. Among his friends are such diverse characters as Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Sir Clive Baillieu of the British Purchasing Commission. Nobody calls him Mr. Batt; he is always referred to as Bill Batt-pronounced as if it were one word. When he called Jesse Jones last week, a warmhearted Texas girl in Jones's office said: "Jus' a minute, honey." All Washington thought that Bill Batt and Donald Nelson would make a good team...
...story of the pact's signing came out. What was known was that by New Year's Day the wrinkles had been ironed out of the draft drawn by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle and his assistant Carlton Savage. Britain's Churchill, Russia's Litvinoff and China's T. V. Soong were called into conference at the White House that evening. Maxim Litvinoff had won one big point. This limited the pledge of the signers to a promise to make war to the end only on the enemies with whom they were already...
...studying meaning, while Dr. Ogden led the Orthological Institute in further refinements of the Basic English method. Ingenious charts for associating pictures and simple words were drawn up with the help of enthusiastic American and foreign students, and the group became widely known in a very short time. Maxim Litvinoff and his wife were so impressed by the Basic approach to English that they learned it and introduced it into the schools in Russia. And Massachusetts successfully employs Basic English in teaching our language to that section of its population which is foreign born. The Committee's high point thus...