Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago when the British Labor Party was younger, louder and relatively impotent, Britain's Trades Union Congress met in annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...
Soviet Russia is one of the countries which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland...
Wrote famed Walter Duranty, doughty dean of U. S. correspondents in Moscow, last week, commenting on Dictator Stalin's titanic project...
...some of the mountains which must be moved if Russia is to increase her industrial production by one-third, the Union Council of People's Commissars debated last week a decree which would abolish Sunday, institute a seven-day working week in all factories and other Russian institutions. Said Moscow's daily Pravda, seemingly confident that the measure would be adopted...
...Soviet and Chinese ambassadors to Germany had at last come to an understanding after nearly a month of secret parleys (TIME, Aug. 5). In Berlin, both diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny that peace had been patched up. In Moscow, however, the Soviet Government's official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia...