Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe, last week when the deal was announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...Assuming that Russia seriously pursues war she will undoubtedly win-unless Japan steps in. Japan could stem any Russian advance with comparative ease, in spite of the fact that the Russian army is today extremely well organized and much more efficient than it was in Tsarist days. It is well equipped, well armed and well clad, loyal and enthusiastic. . . . The Russia Air Force is large, well equipped and efficient...
...Harvard Thomas-for-President Club heartily deplores and condemns the prevalent un-American tendency to brand all new doctrines seditions and to brand as traitors all leaders of new thought. Among institutions which existed for many years were chattel slavery, feudalism, and Tsarist regime in Russia, among the advocates of new political systems have been Jesus Christ, Washington and Lincoln. His fellow citizens demand to know how Benjamin Gitlow has merited jail, and why he has been held incommunicando...
Died. George S. Bakhmeteff, last Ambassador of Tsarist Russia to the U. S. (1911-17); of heart disease; in exile; at Paris...
Corroborative of all this reactionary gossip is the fact that M. Dzhugashvili, whom Lenin nicknamed "Stalin" ["Steel"], was five times exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist regime for various high crimes and misdemeanors, but he five times escaped. In the war of "Whites" and "Reds" which followed the Russian revolution Comrade "Steel" valiantly defended the town of Tsaritsin, which is now called Stalinsk...