Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...
Between April, when the Moskva thaws to liquid life, and November, when it freezes over, a few hardy U. S. citizens venture each year to Moscow...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...