Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moderate Soviet opinion was expressed by Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov...
OTHER FIRES-Maxim Gorki-Appleton...
...Stalin the bourgeois world is as unreal as Soviet Russia was to Calvin Coolidge. Maxim Litvinov knows the outside world, understands the way capitalists think. Tactfully he dissociates himself from Communism's missionary society, the Third International, and its fight to spread world revolution...
...fact that Maxim Litvinov, a moderate at heart, has been able to hold his popularity and power in the Communist Party is just another paradox of the Stalin regime. Some 100% Bolshevists excuse him for the position he holds. As Foreign Commissar it is his duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms...
...other motive power existed. The first successful dirigible, flown by Henri Giffard in 1852, was steam-propelled. Ten years before, W. H. Phillips had sent aloft a small model helicopter with a steam engine in it. Langley's first successful flying model, in 1896, was steam driven. Maxim worked on the idea. But no full size airplane flew. And before one did, Charles M. Manly had built a gasoline engine lighter per horsepower than any steam plant produced so far. When it was proven that gas engines would fly, there remained no reason for early aeronauts to bother with...