Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Municipal School of Music at Rheims will be given by Adolf Bohn and his Ballet Intime on the afternoon of March 27 t the Shubort Theatre. Mr. Bohn is remembered for performances of "Coq d'Or" and "Petrouchka" with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and in connection with the Imperial Russian Ballet...
...second urgent call has come from the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children asking for more University students who have automobiles to aid in the collection of clothing in Boston and vicinity. The clothes collected are shipped to Russia and distributed by the Russian Red Cross among the destitute children...
...opportunity has been offered to all University students who have automobiles to aid in the collection of clothing in Boston and vicinity for the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children. The clothes collected in Boston are immediately sent to the headquarters at New York where they are sorted, fumigated, and shipped as soon as possible to Russia. There they are distributed by the Russian Red Cross among five million or more children who not only are facing starvation, but are in the most acute need of clothing. Last month 122,000 pounds of clothing were sent...
This week one hundred and fifty farmers are to sail from New York to take up land grants in Russia amounting to three thousand acres, which they are to develop according to the most approved modern methods in hope of educating the Russian peasant by furnishing a good working example. The group includes a blacksmith, a teacher, a physician, and a tailor, so that the party will make a perfectly self-sufficing village. The project is sponsored by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia. All the members are Russian...
...enough for the farmer's grandfather and for his grandfather before him is good enough for him; he wants none of these "fool new-fangled" notions. But he cannot get away from facts, and he cannot keep his eyes shut always. All farmers are much the same, be they Russian or whatever; our western farmer is very conservative, and the one who keeps to his horses will rail against the one who uses a tractor as an innovator and an idiot, but he will usually buy a tractor himself eventually, and then look down on the poor benighted heathen...