Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publisher Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune presented the report of his Freedom of the Press Committee. Col. McCormick is a he-champion of Freedom of the Press. Last fortnight he indignantly announced the withdrawal of the Tribune's correspondent from Moscow because the Soviet censors would permit only twaddle to be wired out of their perfect commonwealth (TIME, April 29). Last week he fell upon Minnesota's so-called...
Arriving in Moscow, Divorce Pioneer de la Revera sought out the Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. They placed him in contact with the proper authorities and upon simple declaration that he wished a divorce he received it within 20 minutes. The fee: 15?. "Now I can marry Martha!" exclaimed Senor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera, and within 24 hours...
...couple left Moscow, prying Soviet correspondents queried the bridegroom as to what sort of reception he expected to get on returning to Chile. "I fear that my marriage is likely to go unrecognized there," he smiled. "But I happen to live and practice law in Peru. It makes me feel better to have my union with Martha regarded as legal by at least one Great Power...
...terrier (for luck). No man molested them - neither bandit, desperado, nor escaped Siberian convict. They lived on the land, eating black bread and water, berries, mushrooms, honey, milk. After five years in Russia (they were working on "educational-economics" at famed Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural hole in the side of a barren hill we were awakened at dawn by the fixed...
Almost a decade ago the Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," ordered its correspondent in Moscow to present the following ultimatum to Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin: "You must abandon your censorship and guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the correspondents of other American newspapers, so that Russia will find herself without means of communication with the outer world." The rage into which Comrade Tchitcherin flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government...