Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dreiser. Arrived at Manhattan, last week, famed novelist Theodore Dreiser commented upon an extensive visit which he had just made to Soviet Russia. Said he: ". . .A short time before the exile of Leon (Lev) Trotsky (TIME, Dec. 26) he was subjected to pelting with vegetables...
Asked about the grain shortage in Russia (TIME, Feb. 27), he replied: "I cannot understand why there should be breadlines and unemployment in a nation so rich as America. . . . Nowhere in Russia, regardless of whether the nation is prospering or not, will you find men without coats, standing in breadlines, waiting for a handout. . . . That is one thing which the Soviet has accomplished which is not a theory but a fact...
Leeds-Anastasia. Rich Mrs. William B. Leeds of Manhattan, née Princess Xenia of Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...
...Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines, which now produce $25,000,000 worth a year. U. S. trade with Russia is now larger than before the war, about $100,000,000 a year. The Soviets look the dollar in the face...
...Russia's Social and Intellectual Development in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Karpovich, Sever...