Word: sovietize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...name being really Ginsberg when the letter he wrote to the French Minister of the Interior at the time of his break with Stalin (reprinted in the Socialist Appeal of Dec. n, 1937) begins: "The undersigned, Samuel Ginsberg, bearing in the U. S. S. R. as a Soviet citizen the name of Walter Krivitsky, and the political pseudonym Walter, born June 28, 1899, at Podwoloczyska, Poland, has been a member of the C. P. S. U. since...
...Says the New Masses: Krivitsky-Ginsberg never was in Russia, never was a Soviet official, is a fake. To these guns it sticks. TIME sticks to no guns...
...dictators' press has shouted "Boo!" so many times in the last few years that no longer did such grimacing register in Paris, certainly not in London. There, instead of pondering over the combined Italian-German military might, crowds stood before bookstore windows and gazed at maps of Soviet Russia, commenting approvingly on the size of the great brown expanse. Brokers were calling the advance in stock prices the Stalin Boom. Movie audiences were applauding newsreels of the Red army...
...person, declined by 38,000,000 pairs in 1938. After the famine year of 1932 consumption of foodstuffs jumped: average working-class family in Moscow got twice as much meat, twice as much butter and sugar. But in 1932 only 35,000 tons of butter were sold in the Soviet Union, only 49,000 tons of milk. (U. S. consumption: 51,128,000 tons in 1932.) But by 1935, 207,000 tons of milk were sold...
Horridly shattered one night last week was the Temple's careful neutrality. Shatterer was the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran, florid, bald, horn-voiced, hammer-handed president of the International Catholic Truth Society. His "discourse" touched on the dedication, a few hours before, of the Soviet Pavilion. Famed for his anti-Communist campaigns, a specialist in picturesque "and" invective, Father Curran raised his and to a new high, thundered against "a ranking city official" who had greeted the Soviet Pavilion with "fulsome unAmerican praise." Asked whom he meant, Father Curran rasped: "The audience knew whom I meant." A few listeners...