Word: maxims
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Mikhail Gromov is a Soviet airplane pilot who holds both the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin. He is fiercely proud of his position in Red aviation. He was the regular pilot of the U. S. S. R.'s giant Maxim Gorky, probably owes his life to the fact that he was ill and another pilot was at the controls on the May day in 1935 when a stunting pursuit ship crashed into the Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov...
Soviet Russia had on its hands fortnight ago a frontier clash among the Amur River islands which ended when Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff secured hasty withdrawal of the Russian forces, claimed the Japanese had withdrawn too as promised by their Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu in Moscow (TIME, July 12). Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived...
With world headlines screaming the nearest thing to outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...
Rousseau's maxim: "Among moral peoples, girls are of easy virtue and wives of strict virtue. Among immoral peoples, the contrary is the case...
...readers will be sure to note his only mention (1915) of the late great Eugene Debs: "And who is Eugene Debs? He writes sometimes in a revolutionary manner. Is he only spineless like Kautsky?" And everyone but Bolsheviks will enjoy this passage, in a letter to ,Maxim Gorky: "Your news that a Bolshevik, although a former Bolshevik, was treating you by a new method, has made me really very anxious. God preserve us from 'comrade' doctors in general and Bolshevik doctors in particular. But seriously, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, 'comrade' doctors...