Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars of Sovietland, spent several weeks in Rome, seeking a cure for bronchitis, announced the Russian Embassy of that city. He took the precaution of preserving strictest incognito for fear of assassination...
...P.E.N. Club, International Literary Society, was held with some success last week in Manhattan. There has seldom been so cosmopolitan a literary gathering as that at the Hotel Pennsylvania which marked the opening of the meeting. At the speakers' table were French, German, Swedish, Mexican, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Canadian, Rumanian, Spanish men and women of letters. The speeches (it is ordinarily a rule of the Society that there shall be no speeches) ranged from the kindly words of Mrs. Dawson-Scott, who originated the P.E.N. idea in England, and who read a cordial letter from John Galsworthy, its English...
...weeks does not exceed 100, the majority of whom probably will soon be released. Most prominent among these are seven members of the late Prince Golitzyn's family, who were arrested in Leningrad [Petrograd] for corresponding with the Grand Duke Cyril, one of the claimants to the ! Russian throne...
Into the office of the Russian Trade Delegation at Berlin marched the Berlin police, searched the premises for a Communist against whom a warrant had been issued, turned the place upside down...
...Prince, it was said, had come to the U. S. primarily to raise a fund to care for 3,000,000 Russian refugees until they can return to their native land. He came incidentally to sell his own jewels and recover two Rembrandts (TIME, Dec 24, ART) from Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia plutocrat, against whom Felix has pending a lawsuit...