Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister De Monzie: "France will not forsake the mass of French investors of small means who were the benevolent clients of that Russia of which the Union of Soviet Republics is the legal successor and whom we are bound in honor to protect...
...This condition is brought about by the struggle between capitalism and radical labor, between fascism and bolshevism. This caused the Russian revolution. In Russia today the bolshevists hold away. In America capital controls our universities...
...tilted to her lips a long amber glass. The touch of her hand frosted the glass, for she was very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked...
...Revolution in Russia left professors, scientific men and students destitute. While conditions for some of the physicians and other scientific men are gradually improving, thousands of students are still chronically undernourished and the plight of the professors remains desperate. Half of them have dropped out of sight since 1917. Surely it is to the interest of civilization that those who are left should survive. Many of them can do so if outside help is forthcoming...
...whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday," if facts warrant (TIME, Nov. 2). What facts lie behind Professor Ross' outcry he has yet to determine...