Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to his office the day before Christmas, inspected the bundles piled up for him. Some few interested him. In spite of "Don't Open Until Christmas," he ripped them open and peeped. Mrs. Coolidge received for Christmas a fur coat made of caracul from Austria, platinum fox from Russia. The Fur Manufacturers and Merchants Association was the donor. Colonel John C. Coolidge at Plymouth, Vt., received a box of Christmas edibles from the White House, not to mention about 50 Christmas cards from friends...
...Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols...
...inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between the parties...
Observers recalled that under the Tsarist regime some $40,000,000 in financial reserves was deposited in Russia by U. S. insurance firms to guarantee the payment of their policies. The Soviets have allegedly seized these reserves, and in consequence the policies concerned have been declared void by the issuing companies...
...Soviet Government but independent of it. . . . There is no idea of bringing pressure to secure recognition for the Soviet Government. . . . Claims of a similar kind aggregating $40,000,000 are now being filed against U. S. insurance companies by numerous legal firms retained by private citizens of Russia...