Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor) represents 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists and is headed by Léon Jouhaux. who last year held important negotiations in Moscow with Soviet Trade Union heads. The Confederation retorted last week that the program of Radical Socialist Daladier is "admissible only in a fascist regime. . . . The C. G. T. will know how to take measures for its defense...
Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...
Since the switch of Joseph E. Davies from Moscow to Brussels last June, the post of U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union has not been filled. Last week it appeared that the Soviet post of Ambassador to Washington would soon be vacated also, leaving both the U. S. and the Soviet Union without full diplomatic representation in each other's capitals. On leave in Moscow, able Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, the Soviet Union's first Ambassador to the U. S., disclosed that he has requested a post nearer to Moscow, possibly one in the Soviet Union itself...
...young Oleg matriculated this fall in the University of Moscow. When Father Troyanovsky sailed for Europe three months ago he confided that had Son Oleg chosen to become a doctor or an engineer he could have continued his U. S. education. When he decided to become a writer, however, Soviet schooling was prescribed...
...Saturday night recently in Boston, the Shubert Theatre's SRO sign was out. Inside, Leave It to Me, a musicomedy soon to open on Broadway, sailed ahead to roars of laughter. Victor Moore wowed the audience in the role of a dumbbell U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The pretty Goodhue girls revived memories of the Florodora Sextet. The box office had counted up a huge $25,000 for the week, and the show's press-agent remarked: "I've never seen a show run so smoothly before it reached Broadway...