Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discontent in Russia...
...Swiss citizens now residing in Soviet territory and to make a separate list of those born in the Swiss Canton of Vaud [where the murder took place]." It was understood that the Government intends to deport all the Swiss from the Canton of Vaud who are living in Russia and all those who have recently entered the country, as a protest against the acquittal of Conradi...
Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia refused a check for $520,334 with which Prince Felix Yusupov of Russia (TIME, Dec. 3) would fain buy back or "recapture" two Rembrandt portraits, heirlooms in his family for 200 years, but conditionally acquired by Mr. Widener in August, 1921. The refusal was an impressive demonstration of the undiminished potency of the great Dutch master's name...
...Summer of 1921, Prince Yusupov, whose family was once reputed the "richest in Russia," found himself in financial straits. To raise immediate cash, he had already hypothecated these two historic Rembrandts, smuggled out of Soviet Russia in a manner still unexplained, for the admittedly inadequate sum of 45,000 pounds sterling...
...soldier who prepares for a "peaceful conquest of Russia...