Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
Foreign Minister Wang represented China at the Paris Peace Conference, has been sent as Special Envoy to the U. S. and Soviet Russia, is a Yale B. A. 1911, and continues Managing Director of the great Liuhokou Coal Mines...
...this time all Princesses who had become by marriage Tsaritsas of Russia had been exclusively of German origin for a century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
...time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world...
...Patriot (Emil Jannings)?Lewis Stone takes the title role in this best of recent films about Russia...