Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East expert, had presumably been advising Commissar Litvinoff to stand firm...
Matching stride for stride with tens of thousands of tanned, healthy, spade-carrying German Labor Front workers who tramped across Nürnberg's green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
...season audience of Londoners who were present for the opening missed the virtuosity and sophistication of Russian ballet but liked the buoyancy and bounce with which the youthful Yemenites performed. Those dances which did not have Biblical subjects depicted such incidents in Yemenite life as breadmaking, gossip at the village well, work in the orange groves. In two numbers, Nikova's sturdy five-foot ballerinas gallantly revived the sword dances of their warrior ancestors...
...political commentators covered by the survey, he said, 13% were found prejudiced. Boston stations were rated as the most biased. Specific examples of biased broadcasting, supposed to be quoted from the N. A. B. survey: 1) Commentator Boake Carter: anti-Russian treatment of the recent Russo-Japanese border battle. 2) Station KGB (San Diego): deleting anti-New Deal news. 3) Station WGAR (Cleveland): anti-New Dealism. 4) Station WGN (Chicago): distorting the facts of FORTUNE'S survey of Presidential popularity when the station's newscaster said the survey indicated waning popularity for President Roosevelt...
Serge Prokofieff (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Russian composer-pianist in a concert of his own works by short wave from Moscow...