Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served throughout the remainder of the Russian civil war, and rose to be one of their best commanders. After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful...
Reputedly Ambassador Davies believes the Old Bolshevik trials have been "on the level." Certainly it would be undiplomatic for him to believe otherwise. Correspondents who accompanied him on his recent Russian industrial tour by private train - (TIME, March 15) paid their rail fare at the Embassy before leaving Moscow and only four went. They were surprised and delighted to be handed back their money afterward, assured that they had been the Ambassador's "personal guests." Before leaving Moscow last week, Mr. Davies predicted a rapid rise in U. S. exports to the U. S. S. R., based this...
...countries outside the U. S. to produce good moving pictures were Germany and Russia. Most famed cinema company in Germany for the last 15 years has been UFA (Universum Film Akteingesellschaft), which made such famed silent pictures as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Golem (see p. 48). Most famed Russian director has been Sergei Eisenstein (Ten Days That Shook the World, Potemkin), who four years ago spent two years producing Thunder Over Mexico. Last week, UFA and Director Eisenstein, neither of whom has been much in the U. S. news lately, reappeared in it, both to their disadvantage...
Chief U. S. illusion, says Priestley, is the notion that Americans are dyed-in-the-wool individualists, and for that reason hostile to the Russian collectivist scheme. The truth, he argues, pointing to the easy way of mass U. S. propaganda, to the lavish Russian imitation of U. S. ways, is exactly the other way round. "That is why," he concludes, "America is the country of awful flops and sudden gigantic successes." In short, "the average modern American" is a socialist at heart, but does not know...
...those members of the Class of 1940 who wish to join a House with a gilded spire, or set of wild Russian bells, Winthrop regrets that it has nothing to offer, other than rooms which overlook all the gilded spires of the town, and which are within earshot of the aforementioned wells. The lack of architectural elegance, however, is more than compensated for the group of congenial undergraduates who live in the two fine Georgian buildings, Gore and Standish Halls. It is generally believed that lack of cerise of mauve colored tower has helped to poster the democratic make...