Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roumania. These eleven nations, which have already made settlements, represent $6,419,528,641 of the original principal of the loans. The principal sums, without interest, still pending, are the debt of France, of $3,340,000,000; Greece, $15,000,000; Jugoslavia, $51,000,000; Liberia, $26,000; Russia, $192,000,000, which those at present in control have undertaken openly to repudiate; Nicaragua, $84,000, which is being paid currently, and Austria, $24,000,000, on which by act of Congress a moratorium of 20 years has been granted. The only remaining...
...Special Disarmament Committee will in itself constitute an international conference of the first magnitude, and invitations were accordingly despatched to the U. S., Germany and Russia, as the chief nonLeague states, requesting them to send representatives to this important preliminary gathering...
...philosophical anarchist, but not a Communist," is termed Mr. Donald Stevens, recently returned from reconstruction work in Russia, who will address the members of the Liberal Club today at 1.30 o'clock...
Evenings in Russia are long? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...
...never the rage; when professionals perform in public, the occasion involves little or no ticket speculation; even devotees speak of "a quiet corner for chess." But when, three weeks ago, 21 experts from Austria, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, the U. S., England, Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia gathered in the Metropolis Hotel in Moscow for a formal dinner before their tournament, the Soviet Government took official notice, and great daily newspapers of the U. S. published editorials pontifying upon their activities in general and focusing the reader's gaze upon one man in particular...