Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ewifimij Dimitriewitsch Bogoljubow, Russian, was educated for the priesthood, but at 19 expressed a preference for chess and other worldly pleasures. Large, thickset, handsome, he looks much more like the popular conception of an operatic tenor than of a chess player. Bogoljubow is best Russian player, although the Soviet government, disapproving of some capitalistically sponsored tournament which he entered, officially deprived him of his title, and at the same time equally officially gave him a pawn-and-move handicap against any other Russian player...
Miss Vera Menchik of Russia is a resident of England but listed as a Russian entrant. She was born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Moscow, has lived in Hastings for the last five years. She was a chess pupil of Geza Maroczy, brilliant Hungarian Master, who is also playing in the Carlsbad tournament. Miss Menchik has been acknowledged best woman player since 1927. She played in an English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories...
...Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music...
...third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, known now as a daring speculator. He not only buys to resell but generally has resold before he buys. His procedure is to take an option, find a buyer, complete the purchase, make the sale. He has been known to invest $100,000 in an option, find no purchaser, let option and $100,000 lapse, start philosophically on another deal...
Russia supplied another outstanding realtor in Irwin S. Chanin, better half of Chanin Bros., though Henry I. Chanin is also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison...