Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwillingness of foreign lands to let anyone fly over with cameras possibly spotting military secrets. But eight hours after he blew into Le Bourget, Howard Hughes was aloft again with a jounce that rattled his landing gear. Soon he was flying discreetly high and fast over Germany, aiming for Moscow, then on around the world...
...castigate Professor Gellermann. . . . The highest evaluation that can be placed on his literary effort is to say that it represents the puny product of a small mind." N. E. A.'s delegates cheered. Mr. Doherty dismissed Professor Counts by remarking that he was an adviser to the Moscow Summer School, to Professor Gellermann's charges, retorted that the Legion was democratically controlled by its 11,444 posts, today has the highest membership in its history-935,829. Added Lawyer Doherty: "I am just a humble Legionnaire. . . . I know that I have no connection with any intrenched interests, financial...
...From Moscow last week came a dispatch that a two-headed, four-armed, single-bodied human female born last November still lives. Named Irina & Galina, on the principle that the heads have separate personalities, the dicephalous infant is reported to smile and to respond to her names. Irina & Galina is also noteworthy in that, unlike most monsters, she has a definite usefulness...
This unusual parting gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between...
...ever received kindnesses from Soviet Russia equal to that accorded Mr. Davies, whose outright position as a U. S. money man left room for no ambiguity or misunderstanding between him and his official hosts. Few have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their...