Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposures of the French press by Boris Souvarine in "I'Humanite" of Paris, reviewed in the current issue of "The Nation", are most startling and farreaching. Souvarine spent two years in Russia, examining the files of the old Czarist Minister of Finance; he returned with the sensational information, based on official documents and correspondence, that since 1904 the French press had been systematically bribed and subsidized by the Imperial government...
...most surprising revelations is that the French Government itself not only countenanced but encouraged these subsidies. Magazine writers, financial editors, managing editors, feature writers,--all kinds of people on papers from the semi-official "Temps" to the familiar "Vie Parisienne" received their shares. In the one year, 1905, Russia spent 3,796,861 francs on the Paris press...
...name that came out of Russia last year. It is an assumed name a derivative from the Russian word for "steel." Ivan Stalin. Russians think he resembles inflexible steel...
Stalin, Stalin, Stalin. Nothing so disagrees as prophecy, yet there has been scarcely a comment as to Russia's future that has not mentioned Stalin, Commissar of Police...
...Peter G. Gerry, wife of the Senator from Rhode Island: "From Prince Felix Yusupov of Russia, I purchased a necklace consisting of 42 black pearls for a price which approximated $400,000. Said The New York Times: 'But who could have failed to remember that several things can be done with $400,000 that would produce higher pleasure, even from the selfish point of view; than can the gratification of the desire so common among savages and barbarians, and the possessors of child minds in general, for the hanging in convenient places about the body and clothing of shiny...