Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris to set up a new arms factory in suburban St. Denis. Ben Hotchkiss, like his compatriots, Gatling and Maxim, was one of the inventors of the modern machine gun. One of the firm's best sellers, now long outmoded, was Director Benet's own invention. Though the U. S. Army prefers the Browning, France uses the Hotchkiss extensively. So does Japan. To make him comfortable the Hotchkiss...
...door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries of the three. They took up the two-party non-aggression pacts they had signed with Russia four years ago and extended them for another ten years. Glowing with the respectability of a proved peaceful intention. Mr. Litvinoff talked...
...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...
...Mott's favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling-blocks into stepping-stones...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist...