Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further to harass the Commission, there was present in Geneva the author of the Russian project, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, a round-faced, round-bodied but keen-witted little man who is Soviet Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bustling straight to the point, he stood up before the Commission and charged that, although the League Assembly & Council have considered the problems of disarmament on 38 separate occasions, and although its deliberations have been continued by 14 committees during more than 120 series of sittings, still the fact remains -said Comrade Litvinov-that "not a single real step had been taken...
...Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
...Director of Agro-Joint is gray-haired and twinkling-eyed Dr. Joseph A, Rosen, a Russian-born agricultural expert who migrated to the U. S. but went. back to Russia after the War to assist the famine relief conducted by omnipresent Herbert Hoover...
...Russian Duma," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...city of New York a monument commemorating that titanic hero, Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (1802-94). For a day Manhattan rang with speeches fervently recalling how Kossuth proclaimed the independence of Hungary and became Dictator in 1848, only to see his fatherland reconquered within a twelve-month by Austro-Russian troops supporting the Austrian Boy-Emperor Franz Josef, then a stripling of 19. The fact that in 1851 Kossuth was brought to Manhattan on a U. S. man-of-war and honored as a supreme apostle of Liberty gave point to the dedication of last week...