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...that her debt ($4,500,000,000) still stands and will be paid, in part, whenever the U. S. decides how many of what kind of dollars it will accept. Looming on the President's list of callers and obstructing Sir Frederick's visit further was Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, coming from Moscow this week to discuss Russian Recognition...
...transmission to men of Watson's particular stamp. Much nonsense has been traced to him, including the rugged kind of individualism and the apotheosis of the practical man. But the characteristic residuum of his thought is not so close to either of these as to the admirable maxim of Agassiz: "No one sees farther into a generalization than his own knowledge of details extends." With the qualifications imposed by James' own "sensitive breastbone" and the bow given to pragmatism by its chief apostle's acceptance of God as a provable entity, his philosophy is much farther from dissolution than...
...last Imperial envoy, 16 years have passed. In 1919 a favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...Soviet Foreign Minister, with whom President Roosevelt will negotiate Russian recognition in the White House, is roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, once famed for insistently proposing at Geneva total disarmament of all nations, now grown more practical. With his English wife Ivy he lives not in the Kremlin, as do most of Stalin's intimates, but at a distance, suggestive of the "taint" felt by Communists to adhere to anyone forced to deal directly and continuously with Capitalist governments...
...wave the crowds away. "Let Primo alone!" he shrilled. But the crowds hung on, grateful for an occasional glimpse of the monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...