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Word: russia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establish a U. S. Department of Education with a Secretary in the Cabinet.-Republican Leader Curtis of Kansas. To recognize Soviet Russia.-Republican Borah, chairman of Foreign Relations. To reduce the limit within which conspiracies must be prosecuted, from six years to three;* and to empower the President to give a court witness immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...year closes, what cabinet of a great Power is so sharply criticised as that of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin? During the past twelvemonth it has broken with Russia, declined to agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stocktaking | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Communist Party Congress- a great hive of angry bees which have been droning monotonously at Moscow-took drastic action, last week, and expelled from the party 98 extremely prominent Communists. In Russia, expulsion from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Political Execution | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Kallen of the New School for Social Research will speak on "Palestine and Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menorah Society Meets Tonight | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings from getting out of the country. No government should tolerate on its soil for more than twenty-four hours an individual of this kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fish & Faces | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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