Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most remarkable thing was the first reaction of the world toward the Russian revolution. Nations which had been themselves born by revolution--which had been taught of and had thoroughly believed in the despotism and injustice of the Empire--did not hesitate to condemn the Revolutionists. After all, an empire was a perfectly orthodox and respectable form of government,, whether it was well-administrated or not. And this Red thing was new--sufficient condemnation alone. Fortunately, most nations have calmed their early fears, and as the Russian experiment has become more explicable. Europe has grown more tolerant. America...
Episcopalian bishops were asked to pay for round-trip tickets to Detroit, for some 250 priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in America. In Detroit, April 2-5, these priests convened in order to divorce their church from the Holy Synod in Moscow, and to unite it, or semi-unite it, to the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Russian (or Eastern) Orthodox Church has about 3,000,000 members in the U. S. and church property to the value of $3,000,000. Its cathedral is a smallish minaretted building on 97th street, just off Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. In pre-Bolshevik days, it was subsidized from Moscow. Now it is penniless...
George Zabriskie, prominent Episcopalian layman of New York, has acted as legal adviser of Platon's church, and has advocated secession from Moscow. Bishop Manning is sympathetic. It is believed that if the Russian church is left to itself, it will wither and die. But if it has Episcopalian support it will flourish, like the green bay, and bring forth fruits of goodness and true Americanism...
...first half (11 rounds) of the international chess tournament closed, Dr. Lasker, the German, was the only player who had not once been defeated. The Russian, Alekhine, had won in as many games but had lost one. The championship appeared to lie between these two men and Reti of Czecho-Slovakia and Capablanca of Cuba, present champ. The two Americans (Ed. Lasker of Chicago and Frank Marshall of New York) stood at the bottom of the list, save one. At the very bottom was Englishman Yates...