Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
While troops were reported massing last week on both sides of the Sino-Russo boundary, the Soviet Government signified it would do its utmost to prevent their clashing, despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik Serebriakov, now high in the Communist Party, would deal with Communist-enemy Wang. Wise ones pointed out that Comrade Serebriakov is also vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp. of Manhattan, giant trade outlet for Russian goods; that he would doubtless do his conciliatory best to avoid Russia's having...
...time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding...
Seeming to support a famine fear was the decision made last week by the Council of People's Comissars at Moscow to retain bread cards and the existing bread prices for at least another year. Under the present rationing system, in existence for more than six months, inhabitants of Russia's larger cities, even those of the grain districts, are allowed but one pound of bread -in some cases only three-quarters of a pound-per person...
More recently (TIME, June 17) contracts have been let to other U. S. corporations-for a 100-million-dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine (to be the world's largest); for steel mills, coal mines, apartment houses in Moscow, tractor factories at Stalingrad, etc. etc. After 1933, Industrializer Stalin promises, if there is still necessity, to turn to lesser tasks-such as keeping the population supplied with food and clothing...