Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
Irving T. Bush considers Russia from the business man's viewpoint. Over his desk in New York hangs the motto: " Consider the Postage Stamp, my Son. Its usefulness consists in its ability to stick till it gets there." He bought sand lots on the water front of South Brooklyn and stuck till he got there. Now the Bush Terminal with rail and water connections covers 30 city blocks and contains 123 warehouses, 8 piers and 16 model industrial buildings...
...Soviet Russia is in the throes of a book revolution. Twenty-seven works of Jack London in editions of 10,000 each were published by the Government Publishing House. More are required. Upton Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins exhausted two 10,000 editions in three months; 25,000 of his Jungle were sold; his 100% has an almost unlimited sale." Sinclair Lewis' Main Street and Babbit were sold out before the printing was finished. A 10,000 edition of 0. Henry was absorbed in Moscow. H. G. Wells War in the Air ran through a 15,000 edition...
General Ivan Kharin, " richest man in Russia," before the war, died of cancer of the throat in a Copenhagen hospital. Uncle by marriage to the Grand Duchess Olga, he was well known in Danish society...
...cardinal features of the Premier's speech: 1) Good relations with Great Britain, France, Italy. 2) Good relations with the United States, Belgium, Japan. 3) Good relations with Germany. 4) Genuine peace with Russia and Lithuania, despite Russia "upsetting the world concience" and Lithuania giving "incessant provocations." 5) The statement that "the establishment of rational relations between the States erected on the ruins of the Central Powers must be based on a coordination of Polish, Czecho-Slovakian and Yugoslavian policies toward Central European problems. The establishment of these relations, including as well the Baltic countries, will consolidate the peace...