Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book closes on the year 5688 Anno Mundi Friday evening Sept. 14. This time its mystic writings contain happy records: anti-Jewish riots suppressed in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Russia; Jewish students permitted education practically everywhere; farm colonization in Russia; the economic depression in Palestine overcome; Zionists at last agreeing; Jews and Christians holding love feasts in England and the U. S.; proselytizing of U. S. Jews discouraged; Jewish education aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear...
Harriman-Soviet. There were days when it seemed that William Averell Harriman and his associates must lose their $3,450,000 put into a Soviet concession to export Manganese ore from the Chiatouri district of Russia. The Soviets had formed a state Manganese trust. But last week they announced an agreement to retain the Harriman money, to pay the Harriman an income guaranteed by 7% bonds...
Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich Romanov, ardent spiritualist, will tour the U. S., lecturing. The Grand Duke says he has conferred with the spirit of his cousin and brother-in-law, the late Tsar Nicholas II, who told him the Soviet regime in Russia would collapse...
...fashionable Berlin cinemaddict, The Homecoming held no particular significance. First-nighters watched the story of two German soldiers imprisoned in Russia during the War, returning to the Vaterland to find vast and disturbing changes. What the average cinemaddict failed to mark was a brief announcement at the picture's opening...
...remote countries of the world-China, Russia-John Dewey is known and revered as the wizard of education (TIME, June 4). In the U. S. this prophet is not without honor save among the vast majority of citizens who never heard of him, so inconspicuously has he undermined all philosophy, all pedagogy. Dressed in sombre prose, his sensational thinking has not gained the easy popularity of Freud's shilling-shockers, or William James's eminently readable volumes...