Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern European History will be the subject of two courses by Professor William E. Lingelbach, of the University of Pennsylvania, and in his course on the most recent period he will discuss such topics as the peace treaties, the League of Nations, Republican Germany, Soviet Russia, Nationalist Turkey, Italy and Fascism, War Debts and reparations. A notable opportunity to obtain the best European judgment on psychological problems of the mentally deficient and child guidance is offered through the courses to be given by Dr. Leonhard Seif, Director of the Seminar for Individual Psychology and Child Guidance Clinic in Munich, Germany...
...army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier-son comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life of the lovely Russian countryside. You see how the people get married, do their work, say hello and goodbye. The Soviet propaganda is reduced to a little dose at the very end. Best shots: dressing the bride; the lecherous servant-woman in the hayloft; moving wheat on a windy day on the steppe; a family eating cabbage soup; the old man coming back from town...
...churchgoers of Tiomne do not belong to Russia's Greek Orthodox Church. They are "Johnists," followers of John Kronstadsky, an obscure ecstatic whose chief tenet was that life is intolerable in this worst of all possible worlds, and that the coming of the Soviet was God's punishment for the sins of this world...
Ivan Skripnik slowly laid down the knife, prayed again. Gregory Romashevsky's mental conflict ceased, he desired to live. Springing up, he plunged the sacrificial knife into Ivan Skripnik and also into Igor Serednitzky. Both were dead when Soviet police arrived...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...