Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Education in Soviet Russia" will be the topic of a lecture given at the University on Tuesday evening, April 27 under the auspices of the Graduate Education Club of the School of Education by Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best a noted English classical scholar, and one of the principle-examiners of the Joint Examining Board of the Five Northern Universities in England. The meeting, which is open to the general public, will be held at 8 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House...
...magnates learned with intense annoyance that these monopolies are seriously contemplated. The U. S. financial press rather hysterically denied rumors that the French Government may be planning to freeze out U. S. and British oil-producing firms and draw all its "monopoly" supplies of petroleum from Soviet Russia. Secretary Kellogg deemed these possibilities so serious that he cabled Ambassador Herrick to report upon the situation. Two days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum...
...Concerning what our enemies charge us with, that we are in relations with the Soviet and Germany and that foreigners are taking a hand in our country, all that is imaginary and is the fruit of enemy rumors...
...once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...
Although not criticising the Soviet government, he pointed out how very much like the former regime the present one is. The first act of Lenin, who was the most ardent and idealistic of the pure communists, was a contradiction in face of the communistic principles he had been preaching. It was to give the land over to the peasants for individual, not communal, ownership...