Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since 1914 Europe faces the future turns its back upon the tragic accumulation of war antagonisms and ambitions. Once again, European unity as a family of nations is promised eastward to the frontiers of Bolshevik Russia. The disasterous fracture across Central Europe, breaking the Old World in two embattled camps of victor and vanquished, is ended...
...Special Tariff Conference"; 1 o'clock Round Table luncheon discussion; 2 o'clock, W. B. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, will speak on "Overpopulation in the Oriend"; 3 o'clock, E. F. Wise, economic advisor to Controscyus, Russian Producers' Cooperatives, will speak on "Russia's Place in World Politics"; 8 o'clock, G. W. Wilson, Professor of International Law at the University will speak on "Problems of the Pacific" and Rear Admiral William V. Pratt, United States Navy, will speak immediately following on the same topic...
...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...
...departure of M. Yessenin for Moscow in the custody of two private detectives employed by his wife: "Everybody knows my husband is crazy. ... He is better off in Russia where he is loved even if he is foolish. ... He can smash things in Moscow and nobody cares because he is a poet...
...this she meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until...