Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then posed as to whether the girl could live happily with her Russian in his own striving milieu, minus Claridge's and cabriolets. The stolid Slav does not think so, plods off alone. These platitudinous doings are described as "the first play to come out of Soviet Russia." Actor Leonid Snegov, onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, gave an occasionally trenchant air to the piece. The play lasted six days...
...clock, delegates will register and present their credentials, and, fifteen minutes later, a meeting of the Council will be held. The Council is to be composed of students representing the countries which make up the Geneva Council. At first it was planned to include the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. However, it has been suggested that League procedure might be followed more closely and interesting situations might arise if these five countries the formally admitted in subsequent meetings. The Bolivia-Paraguay question will be the subject under discussion as the first conference...
Since ignored Russia and impotent Germany could not influence the decisions of the statesmen in Geneva, a practical effect of the Hoover decision was to enable France and Italy to carry their point that "trained reserves" and "military supplies" shall not be reduced. The German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, expressed his chagrin as follows...
...number of ergot preparations (important to women) believed to contain "putrefactive amines." Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Dean of Columbia University's College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish ergot might arise from any other cause than his wish to see only the purest ergot used in medicine. The fact that a friend of his, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...