Word: maximovitch
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Such were words flung, last week at Geneva, by a stout, leather-lunged, aggressive Russian at the gentlemen who compose the League's Preparatory Disarmament Commission (TIME, Sept. 26, et seq.). The gentlemen, having been called "purely decorative," sat unmoved. The Russian, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, then proposed that every nation should...
...Author Gorky's real name: Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov...
...last Minister of Interior Maximovitch rose to defend himself. He is a staunch royalist, a popular, impressive man. Feminine ears were attentive in the gallery...
...Before God and my King," cried M. Maximovitch, "I declare that these slanders are lies! My character should...
...that instant a man, stark naked, his body a mass of bruises, rushed down the aisle and up to the tribune. While shrieks resounded from the gallery, this man, one Jovan Risitch, coughed and spat blood upon the floor, then cried in a husky voice: "You, Maximovitch, did this to me! Last night your assassin Sokolovitch had me stripped as I am now and beat me himself because I-a poor government clerk-would not vote as you ordered...