Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commander Kenworthy, Liberal, recently returned from a visit to Russia, mooted the question of Russian recognition. Mr. E. D. Morel, Labor, asked if there was any chance of getting the ?650,000,000 war debt owed by Russia. Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, Labor, emphasized the necessity of recognizing the Soviet Government. Mr. Ronald McNeill, Conservative Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, answering the questions, said that there was no truth in the assumption that the attitude of the Government toward Russia was due to prejudice against the Soviet form of government. "Britain will not recognize the Russian Government until it establishes...
...Russian harvest for 1922 was valued at 3,700,000,000 gold rubles. Average pre-war harvests came to 5,000,000,000 gold rubles per annum...
During the last financial year the Soviet Government collected 300,000,000 rubles in grain from Russian farmers, 20,000,000 rubles on the so- called work tax, 10,000,000 on various excise taxes, 30,000,000 on local imposts. Total, 360,000,000 gold rubles...
...tell the truth. The heroine injudiciously sits in it just before getting married. That, of course, makes tho wedding impossible, and it is some time before she can get started all over again on another one. There are also a few clearly indicated wheezes. They would be funnier in Russian. Lennox Pawle is really comic as a stage Briton. Kenneth Macgowan: ". . . John Murray Anderson's loveliest production." Alexander Woollcott: ". . . Good looks . . . 100; music . . . 50-50; gayety . . . 4." Heywood Broun: ". . . pretty, but laughter has been largely omit- ted." The Love Set. The comic burglar who turns...
...Russian legal code, disrupted by the abolition of private property, and made still more unstable by the recent partial restoration of property rights, is now considered to be incomprehensible to lawyers and Communists alike...