Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...
Developments. The annual British Trades Union Congress met last week at Bournemouth and went on record by a sizable majority against future employment of the "general strike" weapon by British labor. A feature of the meeting was the announcement that Russian trades unionists will contribute 1,000,000 more rubles ($500,000) to the support of the coal strike...
Since the Red Revolution, Russian newspapers have developed from the surreptitious pamphlets of Tzaral days into voluminously leafy formats. Russian newspaper circulation has mounted from a few thousand copies daily to several millions. Recently the editor of the Worker's and Peasant's Correspondent, the special organ of Soviet rabkors (local correspondents), sought to discover the reaction of a great prerevolutionary Russian man of letters to the new Soviet Journalism. Wrapping up a bundle of representative Soviet newspapers the editor despatched them to famed novelist-playwright Maxim Gorky,* now sojourning in Italy. Reply...
...scene of conflict was of course Hupeh Province, the stronghold of Wu. Against this base the Cantonese troops of Chang Kai-check, subsidized by Russian gold, have been making steady progress (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). They were reported last week to have driven Wu from Hankow on the Yangtze, but all information from the battle sector was admittedly untrustworthy...
These banks have accumulated much business properties in the chief cities, and have profited from their valuations enhanced by passing years. They are financing more Russian business than banking competitors of any other nationality. They are in Egypt, Turkey, the Balkans. No one could underbid them for a recent offering of Belgian railway bonds, and, it is whispered; with a mischievous wink, at the dining tables of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, that these German bankers have had the audacity to offer loans to both the Belgian and French governments...