Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm. Salesman Roosevelt showed a model of the planes (Lockheed "Electras" modified for easy conversion to military use) to a delegation of Russian aeronautic engineers. Roosevelt, Fokker & friends worked up a telegraphic code in which the President was "Rochelle," Elliott "New Rochelle," military "industrial," Amtorg Trading Corp. "Ruyork," Moscow "Mosely" etc. After the Russians balked at the price (nearly $58,000 per plane, without motors, etc.), the contract was canceled though Elliott Roosevelt...
...last week felt strong enough to employ the technique of ultimatum to the Great Powers, threatening to act in aid of Spain's radical Madrid regime. Panicky rumors promptly spread that Soviet ships were being loaded with Red munitions in Black Sea ports last week, that creaking old Russian warships and roaring new Soviet seaplanes would convoy these transports into the Mediterranean, and that this time cautious Moscow was ready to risk a general...
...retrospect there was strong suspicion that the Conservative British Government and the Bolshevik Russian Government had each come to the conclusion that they could make political capital out of an overt and noisy appearance of supporting the Spanish Cabinet, just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin...
...Sunday afternoon at 3.30 in Symphony Hall. The program includes Schumann's Fantasy in C major, Opus 131, (which Mr. Kreisler has been editing for several years), Bach's Sonata in G minor for violin alone, the second movement of Paganini's Second Concerto, and the Fantasy on Russian themes of Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Kreisler...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...