Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a child-bearing Russian housewife, already beset with a scarcity of salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper...
...repertory includes 47 operas, including 17 German, 17 Italian, nine French, two U. S. and two Russian...
...strongest public statements since he came into office, President Conant yesterday attacked Russian ruthlessness and German barbarity. He declared, "This endeavor of the Harvard College students to raise money by their own efforts to aid refugees is of importance primarily as a symbol of the determination of the younger generation to show by deed as well as by words that the humanitarian basis of democracy is not dead...
...similar organizations in other colleges and universities can raise funds to take care of capable students who are fleeing the terrors of a dictatorship," he continued, "it will be evident that he American youth has not been made callous by the ruthlessness of the Russian experiment or the barbarities of the present German government...
...page indictment of the New York Times for the biased way they thought it handled the Russian revolution. Time brings all things. Mr. Lippmann is now an editorial keystone on the conservative New York Herald Tribune. Last week Charles Merz was made successor to 75-year-old Dr. John Huston Finley as editor of the conservative New York Times, in charge of the editorial page...