Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud total, 350,000 Soviet tractors rumbling out over Russian harvest fields, was announced by Moscow last week as Communists were summoned at the double to win for Joseph Stalin a spectacular, unexpected "battle of the grain." Russia's potent Five-Year-Plan chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will...
Departure of the commission ended nine years of military association between German militarists and China's Central Government. Ousting his Russian military advisers in 1927, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek first bought the services of Lieut.-General George Wetzell, who was followed by General von Falkenhausen. For a brief period General Hans von Seeckt, former commander of the German Republic's Reichswehr, served as a super-adviser. Under German advice, Prussian discipline-including the goosestep-was introduced into Chinese crack divisions. Most important to Germany was the fact that the mission persuaded China to buy German military equipment...
Revisionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinskv, Russian-born journalist, poet, essayist, who operates in Poland, preaches terrorism, believes in a militant Zionism to be defended by Jewish arms. Banned from Palestine, having left the World Zionist Organization three years ago, frequently called the Jewish fascist leader, Jabotinsky and his methods were decried by official Palestinian Jewry. Zionist-supporting Hebrew newspapers called for self-restraint, the chief rabbinate of Palestine condemned reprisals, the Jewish Agency for Palestine asked that Jews practice "discipline and constructive work" as the "best reply to Arab terrorism." Before London's House of Commons, Secretary of State...
Divorced. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, onetime U. S. Senator from Maryland; from onetime Princess Tatiana Dechterev, Russian émigrée; in Elkton, Md. Grounds: desertion (by Princess Tatiana...
...company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...