Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover had moved on to Berlin. At his hotel, sharp-eyed Gestapo (secret police) agents pounced upon a suspicious-looking package addressed to Mr. Hoover. They ripped it open, to their surprise found only a picture of the late Tsarina Alexandra of Russia sent by an admiring White Russian...
...Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort. In Soviet papers it was said that Rome papers were printing pictures of "Butenko" which did not resemble him in the least and Soviet papers printed his true picture taken in Moscow. Only last week was it possible to place this beside the Rome picture for comparison...
...Bolsheviks suspected that I could no longer bear to see their treachery [to Russia] and had decided to break forever with Bolshevism. In [Tsarist] Russia Joseph Stalin says with his pretense of infallibility, there prevailed 'the darkest terror of a police dictatorship.' . . . In reality never has the [Russian] working class suffered such privations as have been inflicted upon it in the period of so-called Socialization. ... I have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work in the old Russia. They remember it still as a hazy mirage because their salaries then guaranteed...
...Francisco last week Dr. Martin Icove Green, 39, surgeon of a busy eye hospital, wishing to emulate the Russian example, asked-with considerable circumspection-for authority to take corneas from the eyes of the dead. Hitherto in the U. S. such corneal transplants have come from living eyes (removed because of tumors, etc.) and coreas for transplanting have usually been available only when a patient whose eye was removed goodheartedly offered it to another sufferer...
Conant, one of the country's leading scholars in the architecture of the Near East, has made intensive studies and re storation drawings in connection with the work of Russian students on the former cathedral of St. Sophia at Kiev and the church of St. Theodosia in Constantinople...