Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sadoul. But the greatest news of the day, for Frenchmen at least, was the arrest of Jacques Sadoul. Once the member of a French Mission to Russia, Captain Sadoul had become so enamoured of Bolshevism that he deserted to the Bolshevik ranks. In 1919, a Paris court martial condemned him to death in absense for treason...
Since the late lamented Comrade Nikolai Lenin announced his New Economic Policy for Russia there has been a growing need for its modification; and, from time to time, according to necessity, it has been modified. Each time the critics have carped: "Bolshevism is failing." Last week, it failed again. Comrade Dzerzhinsky "the terrible," President of the Supreme Economic Council,* said state aid must be withdrawn from trade and applied to industry and that trade must be financed "carefully" by private capital...
...Stanley High, editor of the "Christian Science Monitor", will be the guest of the Liberal Club at a small luncheon to be given at the club headquarters this afternoon. Mr. High will speak on "Russia" at 1.30 o'clock, and the meeting will be open to all members of the University...
Serge Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky was born in 1874 in Vyshny Volotchk, Russia. He gained admission to the Moscow Conservatory by promising to study the double bass, an instrument much needed at the moment in the conservatory orchestra. Out of the belly of that bull fiddle he brought such music as no Russian, perhaps no other man, had ever brought before. When learning to conduct he grouped chairs about him in the positions players would occupy in actual performance, conducted voiceless symphonies, ghosts responding. He made his first appearance in Berlin, conducted with success in London, Paris, other European capitals. He came...
...Stanley High, prominent pacifist, and editor of the "Christian Science Monitor" will speak to the Liberal Club on "Russia" on Thursday, December...