Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already secure. About 1900 he returned to the U.S. He was employed by the Guggenheims at a fabulous salary, reputed to be as much as a $1,000,000 a year. He was sent as special U. S. Ambassador to the coronation of George V. The Czar of Russia twice called him to consult on irrigation and other engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents. His most recent post...
Strength in Numbers. Since the organized workers of Britain have never before attempted united coercion, it was not generally realized last week how numerous and well coordinated are their ranks. Nowhere else, except in Soviet Russia, is trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many able bodied workers are controlled, as to strikes, by the Trades Union Congress as there are men, women and children in New York City. The unionists operate, in normal times, virtually all the land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these...
Appendix. A series of covering notes between the contracting parties was attached as an appendix having the same validity as the treaty itself. Therein Germany affirms that: 1) She will not take part in any punitive action by the League of Nations against Russia, unless she (Germany) deems Russia indisputably guilty of aggression. 2) The German Government is convinced that Germany's membership in the League offers no obstacle to a friendly development of Russo-German relations...
...Bridge" or "Rope"? The treaty may become either a bridge over which Soviet Russia will pass into contact with other "capitalistic" nations, or a rope by which the Soviets may tug Germany out of friendly contact with the west. Frenchmen were generally anxious about and critical of the new instrument last week. Most League officials seemed not to share the French view that it will tend to keep Germany out of the League...
...Prague, Senator Brabec, leader of the Czechoslovakian National Democratic party, advocated the recognition of Soviet Russia by Czechoslovakia, a policy which he has hitherto bitterly opposed...