Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual source of cash. Since several Baptist weeklies are appearing unmolested...
...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...
Died. Nicholas Nicholaievitch, 72, Grand Duke of Russia; of protracted pneumonia; at Cap d' Antibes, French Riviera...
Upon the Soviet's sensible invitations Thomas D. Campbell, world's largest individual wheat grower, prepared to sail for Russia this week, and Ford and G. M. C. were considering the construction of assembly plants there...
...gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught her, to know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan to begin there a ten-day memorial festival. Her first program, featuring Impressions of Revolutionary Russia, won highest praise. True to Duncan tradition, the twelve young Russians are free-spirited creatures with no regard for conventional dance designs. Manhattan voted them best of the many Duncan disciples who have exploited the name, their dancing the worthiest tribute to the genius which inspired...