Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happy condition. . . . Our relations with South America are on the most satisfactory basis that they have been for 25 years. On the far side of the Pacific our situation is equally satisfactory. We have no important unadjusted problem with the government of any European nation, with the exception of Russia . . . . All the issues that arose, even out of the World War, have been adjusted...
...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...
Pinchas Rutenberg, in short, is an ex-Russian, an ex-revolutionary, an ex-soldier of Tsar Nicholas II, the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-government of Russia ; and furthermore is favorably known in England for having done his very best as Chief of Police to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky...
...Russia, Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky and in Italy Minister of Education Giuseppe Belluzzo are well-known personages. In France, the Minister of Public Instruction was once famed, grizzled Edouard Herriot; is now M. Pierre Marnaud. In the U. S. the lot of the Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion...
Comparable to pre-War England, France, Russia and Germany are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when...