Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram was a smaller but even more obvious slip on the part of John L. Lewis. He was photographed last week with his wife and son at a party at the Soviet Embassy in Washington (see cut). Even Chief Justice Hughes has attended functions at the Russian Embassy. But as every good public relations counsel knows, one photograph open to misinterpretation is worth more to the enemy than a barrage of scurrilous speeches. And last week from Germany, United Press relayed just the kind of chit-chat to make such a John Lewis' Soviet Embassy picture thoroughly misunderstood...
...doubled. This major phenomenon is due, of course, to Dictator Stalin's having suddenly last year made abortion no longer legal in the Soviet Union (TIME, July 6, 1935). Communist sex morals had been so loosened by nearly two decades of abortions in State clinics that millions of Russian females have continued promiscuous relations and, without abortions, the increase in births has shot up so sharply that Moscow, with 2,000 maternity beds last year, has had to be swiftly equipped with 2,000 more...
...been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud in 1913 for transferring $100,000 in stock to his wife before bankruptcy, Downey Harvey was cleared by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1916, has lived ever since on San Francisco's Russian Hill in complete quiet and extreme popularity among San Franciscans with big hearts and long memories. Still spry at 78, despite unique infirmities, he snapped last week when asked if he had any "interest" in the current Ocean Shore revival: "I've lost enough in it already...
...tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...
...Italian Liner Rex scratching hives. Explained Purser Luigi Pesenti: "Each year a new supply of Russian grey caviar is taken on and there is too much indulgence. Every year at this time, in June and,July, we always have the cabin passengers suffering from hives...