Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While rumors of peasant revolts were gurgitating in the Russian provinces, Leon Trotzky, brother-in-law of the late Lenin and Supreme War Lord of the Red Army, was being hauled over the coals by certain of his brother "Bolshecrats...
Their latest stroke of perverse genius was the demonstration staged in Paris upon the arrival of Leonid Krassin, the first ambassador of Soviet Russia to France. For months, the Soviet government sought recognition from France, and for months the French wavered between rejecting and accepting the Russian protestations of good faith. At last came recognition, and with it. Russian international stock took on a bullish tone...
...invariable Senate rule to rush through matters which require mature deliberation, such as the Japanese exclusion measure, and to delay and wrangle over those which call for prompt action, will not be departed from. Under Senator Borah's marshalship those cold storage eggs the World Court and Russian recognition will be taken out for an airing, if nothing more...
...Author. St. Reymont was born in 1868 in what was then Russian Poland. His family was large, poor, patriotic. His mother and her five brothers took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863 against Russia. He, too, is a patriot. He has been telegraph operator, actor, railway clerk, farmer, even spent months in a Paulist monastery. His complete works comprise 28 volumes of novels and short stories...
...British labor with the very cautious program of the American Federation of Labor will find more material for despair in the work of the annual convention just closing in El Paso. Resolutions against the extension of government activity in business, refusal to join any political party, opposition to Russian recognition--the readoption of these safe-and-sane truisms is enough to make the union leaders life members of the chamber of commerce. Obviously, the American Federation is not radical...