Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave her unlimited credit and a long, long time to pay. Plans for the million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with flagrant violation of its pledge not to foster Red propaganda on U. S. soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with...
...Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly...
Seversky Aircraft Corp. is named for its 42-year-old founder, president, chief designer and test pilot, Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky. A short, slim, kinky-haired Russian, "Sascha" de Seversky became a flyer in the Russian Navy during the War, lost his right leg in his first engagement, came back from the hospital to shoot down 13 German planes. Awarded the highest military honors, he was equally renowned for inventing a combination pontoon and ski which allowed Russian Naval planes to continue in service during winter. Just as the Revolution started, he was appointed to an aviation commission...
Rushing things, Dictator Stalin ordered staged and broadcast this week one of his great propaganda trials to which the entire Russian nation is urged to listen in. Hitherto no Old Bolshevik leader against whom even the gravest charges have been proved has ever been executed, but this time Moscow broadly hinted that Zinoviev and Kamenev will be shot...
...single day, and 24 English publishers brought out Longfellow's work in competition. Simple, sweet, one of the most learned men of his time. Longfellow welcomed callers who ranged from English tourists who intruded "because there were no American ruins to visit" to such strangers as Bakunin. the Russian an archist who, invited to lunch, invited himself to dinner as well...