Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special assistant to the Attorney General. That was in the day of a Democratic Administration. Working under Attorney General Palmer, young Hoover handled the legal arrangements of the cases by which the Government secured the deportation of Emma Goldman, of Alexander Berkman, of Ludwig Martens (the "Ambassador" of Soviet Russia...
Chamberlain's Speech. Fresh from visits to Paris and Rome (TIME, Dec. 15), Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain told the House in a speech lasting 85 minutes how favorably the League of Nations had impressed him. With regard to Russia, Mr. Chamberlain said that there was no shadow of a doubt but that the Zinoviev letter (TIME, Dec. 1) was authentic. He did not think it was opportune at present to negotiate with Russia and he declined to discuss the matter further...
Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...press showed much enmity ; talk of ousting him, attributed to jealousy, was heard in Government circles ; the Red Army vowed that they would not part with him; but Trotzky was a sick man sick with bronchial troubles aggravated by la grippe. Doctors ordered him to the sunny Caucasus, Russia's Riviera...
Long and cold were the vigils. None could be sure of the dead man's wish. Through long nights the Doukhobors waited. Finally, they held an election at the graveside, chose Peter Veregin Jr., 41, who was supposed to be en route for Canada from Russia. The anxious Doukhobors, 10,000 strong, awaited the advent of their prophet-elect...