Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand you find very strong movements to separate peoples. We can mention a few of those, for instance, the growing nationalism of the Far East; the political revindication of the countries lost in the World War: the problem of national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe; the Soviet Russia's policy...
...Russia is still anxious to secure ascendancy in Manchuria so that she may develop her ports in the northern Pacific, and this action has undoubtedly re-awakened her former animosity. Prospects of a Russo-China alliance with a war of revenge against Japan have once more become threatening. And the European powers, by indirectly aiding Chang in the Tiensin crisis, have shown that they are ready to enter a defensive alliance with Japan in order to preserve their Chinese commercial interests...
...following table, compiled from reports of recent weeks, indicates how populous a place the Arctic Circle will be this summer. It shows ten known expeditions and one more rumored. Five nations are represented: the U. S., France, Norway, Italy, Russia. All these traveling by air will be in search of a hypothetical continent or large island. Six parties mean to visit the Pole...
Eleanor Gyzicka, sister of Joseph Medill (Chicago Tribune) Patterson and niece of the late Robert S. McCormick (sometime U. S. ambassador to Russia and Austria) met Count Joseph Gyzicki (Austrian-Pole) in St. Petersburg and Vienna diplomatic life, marrying him in 1904.** She has long adorned and stimulated the chic milieu of which she writes. Photographs released to the public prints reveal her as an attractive, dark beauty well on the mentionable side of 35, posing in silks beside sophisticated bookshelves, cigaret in hand, large black eyes bent upon the beholder from beneath a high, thoughtful brow...
...trip around the world in record time on which he will be accompanied in June by Edward S. Evans, wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans-Atlantic vessel...