Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...booming himself. But a California supporter started a chain postal card boom: "Link by link and vote by vote it will carry him to the White House!" And Mr. Borah commented: "Fruitless endeavor!" Meanwhile he is at work in Washington, apparently considering the possibilities of a visit to Russia, or a return home to fight for the direct primary in Idaho. Johnson. Where Mr. Harding is for the World Court, and Senator Borah takes the middle ground, Hiram Johnson leads the extreme opposition- " high priest of all the irreconcilables." Since Borah left the reactionaries to advocate a world court...
...titles just given to the world. First and foremost comes "Mirrors of Moscow", a cry from the wilderness by Louise Bryant. It will well repay the pleasure of reading and will give an adequate picture of the chief figures of Moscow, which city is at present, Russia itself...
...books" I have read, ranging from Ian Hay through Donald Hankey to Ambassador Page, I have come across none that possessed the inherent power and strength and fascination of this strange tale. Dr. Ossendowski, a Polish professor formerly holding an important official scientific position in Russia, was caught by the Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern...
...itself as we know it from the West there is very little which is a relief. The author loses no time in political theorizing or in speculating as to the future of Russia, but steps quickly into the boundless forests of the Yenisei. From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever...
...Boston Transcript (to Henry Cabot Lodge a very, very Boswell) is apparently unable to take Mr. Lodge's Senate confrère, William E. Borah seriously. Mr. Borah plans a trip to Russia this summer and has let that fact be known. Says The Transcript...