Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duke Nicholas, so-called "strong man" of the former Russian imperial family, was commander-in-chief of the Russian armies (1914-15), and second cousin of assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and last, whose successor he claimed to be. A leader of glorious victories and masterly retreats, the Grand Duke Nicholas was beloved of thousands of Russian emigres and commanded popularity even among the masses in Russia after the Revolution, to the constant discomfort of the Soviet state...
Present when death came were Grand Duke Peter and representatives of the ''White Russian Army," organized by the late Baron Wrangel (TIME, May 7), pledged to the Grand Duke Nicholas, and now left desolate in Jugoslavia and Rumania, where the "soldiers" work as laborers...
Prayed over the Grand Ducal bier, last week, the Archimandrite Theodosius of the Greek Orthodox (old Russian) Church...
...Ford and G. M. C. invitations looked to speed up Russian industry. The country has 150,000,000 population, but only 22,000 motor vehicles, 40,000 tractors. Complementary to this intention the Soviet has just placed a $250,000 order for truck engines and transmissions with Hercules Motor Corp. of Canton, Ohio, and Brown-Lipe-Chapin Co. (G. M. C. subsidiary) of Syracuse, N. Y. Russians will assemble the machinery in Russian-made 3½-ton trucks and busses...
...From the Russian frontier loyal Afghan troops under War Minister Mohammed Vali Khan rushed to succor Kabul last week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...