Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With stark, brutal candor the Soviet State announced, last week, through its official news organ Isvestia, that savage and murderous resistance to the Soviet Power is now being made by members of the Kulak or "Rich Peasant" class-the class most relentlessly taxed by Moscow's sovereign Proletariat...
...that Dictator Stalin is straining and perhaps overtaxing the resources of the country to get money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely...
During the past twelvemonth the Dictator tried to increase grain production by creating enormous state farms (worked by proletarians) and by sending Communist instructors to coach small farmers in methods for increasing the yield of their arms. Naturally this procedure threatened to undermine the locally monopolistic position of the Kulaks and tended to force down still further the price at which the State could compel producers to sell grain. The arson and murder of last week are very largely explained by the despair of the Kulaks at this new situation. They burnt fields and barns of State-grown grain. They...
...Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless...
...Manhattan Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson), famed philanthropist, onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into...