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Word: poland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geographers noted that what was once the Empire of the Romanovs and what is now the U. S. S. R. are indeed two quite different areas. In the West the Baltic countries from Poland to Finland have split off; in the Near East the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) have been created and linked with the other Socialist Soviet Republics which signed the treaty of union at Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Notes, Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Nicholas. Despatches reported that the entire staff of the Leningrad newspaper Krasnya were clapped into jail last week as accomplices in the publication of an article wherein the present Soviet Ambassador to Poland, M. Wykoff, is specifically charged with having poured quantities of sulphuric acid over the corpses of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family, after they had been shot dead at Ekatemburg, Russia, by Commandant Yurovski, former Tsarist officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Rumor | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. It was a source of great satisfaction to me to welcome in London the distinguished plenipotentiaries of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia, who on Dec. 1 signed the diplomatic instruments initialed at Locarno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament Adjourns | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...approached (professionally) no nearer the Capital than Hagerstown, Md. (TIME, Nov. 30). A most sensitive individual, M. Paderewski was revolted by the thought of charming dollars out of the pockets of statesmen whom he had known officially during his historic term as Prime Minister of Poland. Thus when Mrs. Coolidge entered her box at Poli's Theatre with Mmes. Dawes, Hoover, Longworth and Mr. John Coolidge, it was to hear him play for charity (American Legion Endowment Fund for Disabled Soldiers). Mrs. Dwight F. Davis had gone South, but gave her box to Princess Bibesco and Mmes. David A. Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Washington | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...lives 10,000 horses, 100,000 men. As Peter takes possession, the Swedes attack. Peter beats them at Poltawa and they flee to the Turks. Peter follows, is surrounded, nearly annihilated. Then he and Katharina overcome their enemies. Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, Karelia. the Ukraine are Peter's. Sweden, Poland, Turkey are humbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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