Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who hates and professes to scorn Statesman Stimson (TIME...
...MAGNET?Maxim Gorki?Cape & Smith...
...country that officially does not exist (to the U. S.), Soviet Russia is doing pretty well in gross tonnage of literary exports. Maxim Gorki's latest (839 pages) ups the total by at least a couple of pounds. A continuation of Bystander (TIME, April 14, 1930), The Magnet carries the story of Clim Samghin, myopic Russian intellectual, a few hundred thousand words nearer its goal...
...factors-to enter into play simultaneously and collectively." Under the new policy announced by II Duce last week, cut wages will not be upped, but there will be no more cuts. State Nep. In Moscow iron-willed but supple-witted Dictator Josef Stalin went back last week to the maxim of LENIN: Advance three steps, retreat two, net gain...
...easy to point to the futility of restrictive measures throughout the nineteenth century and to conclude that Germany's move is ill-considered. Complete civil liberty, however, has never been accepted as an administrative maxim. In this country, federal customs restrictions, state prohibitions, provide for censorship and deny the right of free meeting. Unless the application of Germany's decree is extremely rigorous, the Fatherland need not be ranked with Italy and Russia as a post-war despotism...