Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said bitter Correspondent Newman: "The purpose of the new visa system is ... to exclude an accredited correspondent without resorting to the clumsy device of expelling him on trumped-up charges of espionage." Then, in the "fresh air" of Paris, Newman began a 15-installment, uncensored report on life in Russia...
Waksman first thought of studying medicine, but Russia was not the place for him to do that. With four friends from Priluka, he decided to try his luck in the U.S. The young Ukrainians landed at Philadelphia in November 1910, and Waksman went to stay with a cousin, Molki Kornblatt, and her husband Mendel, on their five-acre farm in Metuchen, N. J. He weeded the vegetable garden, fed the chickens and dug pestholes, while the Kornblatts' children helped him improve his English. Kornblatt gave him some advice which proved decisive: go to see Dr. Jacob Lipman, another Russian...
During his last trip to his native Russia in 1946, Waksman was treated royally by the Russians and made a member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. With this honor went a 15,000-ruble prize, but Waksman could not take the money out of Russia. So he bought a rather formidable painting of a north Russian landscape by Beruleia-Berulia, which now hangs in the living room. The firmly fixed price was 18,000 rubles, but the Russians agreed to knock off 3,000 rubles if allowed to keep the frame...
...letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps to cheer Winnie, Joe also predicted that Labor would never govern in England...
Such good will was infectious. Always easily infected, handsome "Big Ed" Stettinius, U.S. Secretary of State, earnestly told Uncle Joe that if they all worked together after the war, every house in Russia could have plumbing and electricity. Statesmanship could go no farther...