Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that the Russians are now better off than they ever were under the Tzar, that Soviet government with a well trained army of 600,000 is stable, that " there were signs of prosperity on every side," that graft is nonexistent, that the hatred of Russians for religion is exaggerated, that the Russian government will honor the debts to Americans contracted by its predecessors (Tzarist and Kerensky, that Trotzky is willing to guarantee American property rights in Russia. In short he believes that Russia is taking up "sensible communism" and he joins the Senators who demand American recognition of Russia...
...Bush conferred with Trotzky, Kameneff, Tehiclierin, Litvinoff and others. He then gave interviews which were published in Izvestia and other Russian papers, From Moscow came a report of his remarks: " I am bold to say that not one American in ten thousand has any idea of the order and generally good conditions prevailing here. . . . The Russian leaders strike me as intelligent, courageous and sincere. . . . But there is one thing these people have to learn . . . that they cannot expect American cooperation until they regain American confidence. . . Optimistic as my comments may seem to many people at home, that should...
...erroneously reported by the press that the 1,000,000 mark note will be the largest paper unit in the world, outside Russian rubles. For many months Austria has circulated 5,000,000 crown notes...
Demian Byedny, described as the "Russian Poet Laureate," has written a satire on Lloyd George...
...number of European savants are convinced of the achievement, including Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious. A Russian doctor, Katz, recently announced the restoration of sight in blind humans by an artificial device, but not by transplantation of a living eye (TIME, April 14). And right here in Paterson, N. J., the well press-agented Lemonowicz boy had a pig's eye grafted, but without gaining...