Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With regard to the question of Russian debts, loans and credits, it is, generally speaking, a matter of time. The Russians repudiated their debts and it is obvious that no new credits will be forthcoming until the world is convinced that the Soviet Government won't repudiate them also . . . I can say that . . . the Soviet Government will find it hard to get any fair-sized loan today...
...important as this question may seem, there is another far more important-the Russian harvest. Now let us make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
...Amos-Rod LaRoque's face has been widely distributed over the countryside on billboards announcing him as a star of the new Cecil B. DeMille organization. His first picture is a retelling of William J. Locke's tale of the young Australian roughneck who saves a Russian princess on the Riviera. Good enough...
Most Of the most prominent Jews in the U. S., to the number of 1000 assembled at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, to discuss the plight of their coreligionists in Eastern Europe. David A. Brown, Jewish organizer, proposed a plan for assisting Russian Jews to get back to the farm. He was supported by Julius Rosenwald and Louis Marshall. He was emotionally opposed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise who urged concentration of Jewish efforts in Palestine. After a day's debate, Messrs. Brown, Marshall, Rosenwald, Wise, H. H. Lehman, Felix Warburg, Nathan Straus, retired, a committee, to a room...