Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directly after the Revolution, Russia passed through a period of so-called "War Communism" characterized by virtual abolition of money and attempts to apply the Communist maxim "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Today Russia is back on a money and piecework basis, but is not back on a Capitalist basis, the distinction being that no private employer is permitted to amass any considerable wealth...
...patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced slightly at the too terrific blaring of the Red Army band which had burst into Turkey's national anthem: Istiklal Marsi (March of Independence).* In a Rolls-Royce the Turks were driven between two miles of cheering, flag-waving Muscovites to their lodgings in the ornate palace...
Acclaimed by that old literary war horse Maxim Gorky as a worthy successor to Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Author Leonov has at least the distinction of writing a contemporary Russian novel practically propaganda-less. To the benefits of Soviet industrialization he does not point so much as to its all-too-human obstacles and overwhelming material work. Yet it is still clear that in Russia one must swim with the Soviet river, or be left to rot along its banks...
...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Moreover, he revised copybook maxims for his own purposes to: "Never do today what by any means you can put off until tomorrow, and never do yourself what you can get anyone else to do half as well as you can." But the Scripps brain did not idle with the Scripps body. He had another, a compensatory maxim which proved a true success formula: "Be ready with the right decision when the deciding time comes...