Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furnace of the ship that fear had made him board. In Moscow, where he went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood was again a hero for a little while. They put him in charge of a mining enterprise at Kuznetsk, which he managed so badly that it failed. In Russia, Big Bill's vast radicalism seemed faintly conservative; he was a prophet no longer and he became slowly almost without honor. He lived in the Lux hotel with the rest of the important useless exiles from foreign countries; newspaper correspondents brought him U. S. papers or boxes of paprika...
...Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these may form an international Communist force in time of war. The Red Army of Soviet Russia cannot, admitted Chairman Rykov, attack the Capitalist powers of Europe with immediate prospect of success. Finally the agents were cautioned not to convey instructions to the Cells by circulars "which always fall into the hands of the police," and were told to keep their records and reports to Moscow...
...opinion. I believe that if India is tired of white rule, and if the British are tired of ruling India, then India must be prepared either to be ruled by the yellow race, or by those of the brown races whose religion is other than Hinduism, or by Soviet Russia...
...soft" & "hard" nomenclature for railway cars was first introduced, as everyone knows, in Soviet Russia...
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late Horace E. Dodge (automobiles) of Detroit, famed for her speed boats and her $825,000 pearls, once the possession of Empress Catherine of Russia; from James H. R. Cromwell of Philadelphia...