Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shell invites war because Standard of N. Y. buys oil from Russia. Russian oil on the Indian market competes closely with Rumanian oil shipped there by Shell. Shell refuses to buy Russian oil on moral grounds, saying that the Soviet Government's confiscation of oil properties in Russia was thievery. Placards have been posted in Shell offices: "We do not sell stolen...
...This attitude is shameless hypocrisy. Standard has proof that Shell did everything in its power for seven months in 1926 to obtain a monopoly for the sale of Russian oil. Shell failed. Shell invited all oil interests to refrain from selling Russian oil. Standard of N. Y. refused...
...Standard of N. Y. sees no reason for cutting its own throat by rejecting Russian oil, the U. S. State Department has approved trade with Russia. Standard of N. Y., having no Rumanian oil rights, must buy Russian oil to maintain its position in the Eastern market. Standard will fight Shell...
...young Paderewski had little in his favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...
...first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed...