Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually supreme at Nanking is the Central Executive Committee of Forty-Six, which recalls by its title the Russian Central Executive Committee. The Chinese Committee is technically responsible to the Party Congress; but the Congress cannot assemble except by order of the Committee, which is supreme when the Congress is not in session...
...Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...
Viewing these warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...
Said he, through his own company: "The Soviets want to frighten us into a deal. They want us to buy the Russian monopoly with a loan to the U.S.S.R. We shall lend them no money and we will make no matches in Russia, even if the monopoly is handed us as a gift...
...number of the evening. This symphony won the prize of $3000 offered three years ago by the weekly journal. Musical America, for an orchestral piece of symphonic dimensions, that was to be "a really representative work, one which will be to American music what the standard German, French, and Russian works for orchestra are to the music of their countries...