Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cohen and Ishansky. . . . Since John L. Lewis is pushed out of the picture as the most powerful man in the country, Ishansky is running the country." Inquiry revealed that by "Ishansky" Mr. O'Connor meant "someone who looks like" Constantine Oumansky, Ambassador to the U. S. from Soviet Russia...
...Italy; Spain, where General Franco set up a new Cabinet; Italy, where economic conditions were reported increasingly bad and where some mysterious reversal upset the maneuvers of the Army of the Po; The Netherlands, shaken with political crises, a far-reaching bank failure, and alarmed for her Pacific Empire; Russia, where the Anglo-French military mission began its staff talks with top-ranking Russian officers; Japan, where trouble was developing in the Cabinet over the question of adherence to the Axis; Great Britain, where, with a truculence that astonished visitors, Britons were parading their naval might and displaying confidence...
...farm and industrial purchases. In March Great Britain followed suit with a credit for the same amount, to support Chinese currency. These two loans put a deceptive rouge on China's pale financial face. Last week Chinese officials in Chungking said that Soviet Russia would soon lend China 700,000,000 rubles ($140,000,000), that a preliminary loan of $30,000,000 had been settled. If the huge credit goes through, China's face will get some really healthy color in it. In return for U. S. S. R. cash, China would provide Russia with certain...
...least desirable jobs in Russia is that of the People's Commissar for Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs...
...fitting, France, with the greater Army, entrusted its mission to a general; England, with the greater fleet, sent an admiral. Russia, eager to be shown that the two democracies can back up their word if they choose to keep it, appointed its highest officers to receive the mission. Russia's chief delegate was Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov...