Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly entertaining, contains accounts of several visits made to the Island and ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it -Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody- except the aerophile scientists-believes that Wrangel Island is of any value...
...lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured by the inroads of French, Italian, or Russian menus or even by the jargonized Americanese of the aspiring Greek...
Later, in the early hours of the morning, the Majestic steamed down the bay and out to sea with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing...
...operation and money which is quoted on these stock exchanges. Besides, the new policy has created a class of small landholders who have small sympathy for Communism and has turned the professional classes also against the Communists. " . . . I admit that Russia has evolved a magnificent propaganda machine and believe Russian propaganda will become more intense as the failure of Communism becomes more pronounced." ¶By a vote of 160 to 28 the Senate passed Premier Mussolini's Army Reform bill, under which the Chief of the Army General Staff is given power to decide national defence questions. Admiral Thaon...
Born. To Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky, Russian prince who claims descent from Rurik, founder of the Russian Monarchy, and Princess Obolensky (Alice Muriel Astor, daughter of the late John Jacob Astor), a son. The Prince's first wife was a daughter of Tsar Alexander...