Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baring his canine teeth in a merry grin, round little Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. shrewd, sly Foreign Commissar of the U. S. S. R., arrived in the U. S. last week. He promptly reminded the Press that President Roosevelt had "taken the initiative in addressing Mr. Kalinin." repeated the statement he had made in Berlin that as far as he was concerned it would take "less than half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation...
...daughter in a modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf brought out an English translation of Bunin's famed...
...Most notable caller expected at the White House this week was Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Russia's rolly-polly Foreign Commissar, who last week arrived...
...that her debt ($4,500,000,000) still stands and will be paid, in part, whenever the U. S. decides how many of what kind of dollars it will accept. Looming on the President's list of callers and obstructing Sir Frederick's visit further was Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, coming from Moscow this week to discuss Russian Recognition...
Speeding from Moscow to Washington last week via Berlin and Paris, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinov said of his coming talks with President Roosevelt about U. S. recognition of the U. S. S. R.: "As far as I am concerned everything could be settled in half an hour...