Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine, starry night the 500 delegates trooped into Red Square at Moscow and grouped themselves around the jet black tomb of Lenin. To the top of the tomb went Kalinin, the peasant-President of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets, and there he extolled the greatness of the dead Russian leader. More than 15,000 people assembled to witness the impressive scene...
Last month, when the Sino-Russian pow-wow was on in Peking, Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, U. S. Minister to China, wrote to American-educated Dr. V. K Wellington Koo, Chinese Foreign Minister, and requested the Chinese Government to see that the foreign interests in the Railway were protected...
...Chinese Eastern Railway was built by Russia under a contract concluded in 1896 and the railway zone was administered solely by Russians. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, the U. S. took over temporarily the operation of the railways. During this period the Wilson Administration spent $5,000,000 for the upkeep of the railway, which stun is now owing...
...likely that Fyodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso, Metropolitan star of the first magnitude, will not appear as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra next season. Why not ? Because Serge Koussevitzky, the great Russian conductor, will lead the Bostonians...
...Koussevfeky threw down his baton and marched out in smothered rage. The audience tittered gleefully. Chaliapin stood his ground. A new conductor, De Posse, formerly of the Chicago Opera, was hustled to the desk. The opera went on. The buzz of perplexity is heard in Continental musical circles. The Russian temperament is difficult to understand