Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow as Consul General went George Hanson when U. S. recognition of Russia promised to open up vast trade possibilities. Three weeks ago that glittering bubble burst (TIME,, Feb. 11). Following week, as a diplomatic suggestion that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff had played him false, President Roosevelt pared the staff of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, closed the Consulate...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
Following close on John's dissertation on Harvard's step-children comes an article by a Mr. Lenin on Professor Sorokin which is mildly incomprehensible, but nevertheless educational. "Book Notes" is the next prominent feature of our distinguished contemporary, where in appear earnest works by Maxim Gorky and by Earl Browder...
USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...
...trade that would soon be theirs. Ex-Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, Russian-trade adviser of AAA, declared that as soon as adequate credits could be arranged, Russia would be in a position to buy $520,000,000 worth of U. S. goods every year. Said Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff who traveled from Moscow to Washington to conduct the negotiations that led up to recognition: "Enjoying the lowest foreign indebtedness in the world, the Soviet Union has the greatest capacity for absorbing the raw materials and products of other countries. . . . The U. S. could make use of this capacity...