Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope I shall live to see the day when either there will be a civilized government in Russia or when we shall have ended this present pretense of friendly relations with men who are seeking our overthrow. . . . "What folly Lloyd George committed when he brought these Russian intriguers into our midst! . . . "I have to add this warning. Persons who lend money to Russia, as they are entitled to do, must be alive to the risks they run and understand that, in no circumstances, will the British Treasury accept any responsibility if they are defrauded...
...Churchill's outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
...trading organizations and two mixed companies carry on virtually all trade between private U. S. interests and the Soviet foreign trade monopoly. Concerning these activities Mr. Reeve Schley, a vice-president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan, is quoted: "The Chase National Bank has been doing business with Russian organizations here and in Russia for the past two years (1924 to date). . . . Our experience during this period has been entirely satisfactory...
...international mind which it is safe to assume is gaining more and more intelligent citizens of the world. It is not only in material things, in commerce and oil and rubber that we are becoming internationally-minded, but also in things of the mind and of the spirit. That Russian and English delegates should be sitting next to German and Indian philosophers here next September is a hopeful sign for the future of philosophy and a tribute to the University where such an event is made possible...
Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin...