Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
Broken Hearts. The proverbial melancholy of the Russian Jew is herewith condensed into a motion picture with Maurice Schwartz principally cast. Mr. Schwartz is the notable leader of the Yiddish Art Theatre in Manhattan. He makes a pretty good movie actor, and has at least had the courage to play a picture which is all sorrow. It is about a Russian youth whose Russian wife came to life after he had remarried in America...
Professor Hill's course on the Russian nationalists. Music 4d, I shall have to visit this morning at noon. His subject will be Borodin, the composer whose "Pride" and "Dark Forest" I have just heard at Mr. Whiting's recital...
...Extremely well authenticated reports from Paris indicated that the Russian Commission was empowered to negotiate the granting of Russian oil concessions to French capitalists, in return for which the loans just mentioned would be advanced to Russia. Fiscal experts opined that unless the Soviets are willing to bind their bargain by well protected concessions of this nature, no bargain will be struck...
Zaharoff. In 1850 a Greek woman gave birth to a son by a Russian father. The boy made his way out of the Levant by means best known to himself, picked up ten languages here and there, picked up tips as a waiter in one of the great hotels at Zurich, picked up an education of sorts in England, became interested in the munitions industry, and made the acquaintance of a certain influential Spanish lady...