Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Litvinov. For the Soviet Union, round, cherubic Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov offered a billion dollars' worth of Russian orders for the World's industrial products-but with the fatal string attached that Russia can buy only on credit, something the World is unwilling to give...
...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...
...Russia will have one vote. Japan will have two, its own and that of a Manchukuo representative. It was, said the Japanese Foreign Office, their business to see to it that Manchukuo did not become embroiled with Russia, thereby involving her ally Japan. Said Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, "It is common knowledge that Japan and Manchukuo are the same thing." The Japanese Foreign Office chortled that Litvinov's remark was "just like the Russians...
Best-known Russians today are Dzhugashvili, Bronstein and Pyeshkov-but not by those names. Stalin, Trotsky and Maxim Gorki are the famed pseudonyms they have adopted. Least potent but most popular of the three is Gorki, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters. Long before the Revolution, when it was still in the lower depths, he hitched his wagon to the Red star; as the star rose, so rose Gorki. His birthplace, Nizhni-Novgorod (chief navigation centre on the Volga River famed for its annual fair and now the site of a state automobile plant) has been renamed...
...would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding with Lenin and working for the labor movement. After the Revolution he dedicated himself...