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...with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat-faced, greasy Premier Gendun of Outer Mongolia and his Commissars, entertained them lavishly in the Kremlin, plied them with vodka, questioned them closely, made friends. Eyes on Map. Above what is effectively Chinese territory today (see map) lie Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia, inner Mongolia and Manchukuo. Sinkiang these days appears to be passing from Chinese into Soviet control. It may yet be the promised land of Chinese Communism. But its sparse population...
...shortest way from one loom to another, and how to save steps. I feel all right, tired, but nothing serious. I guess it would be easier, though, if we got more nourishing food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese and sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls of which were decorated with poster pictures not of potent Dictator Stalin but of popular War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Squeaked the Stakhanov family phonograph...
...selling gowns and keeping track of complicated collections of identification papers, a favorite occupation of "white" Russians is to run night clubs. In Manhattan last week was opened a new cabaret, La Maisonette Russe at the Hotel St. Regis. Though the usual socialites and columnists were present to drink vodka and listen to gypsy music, the religious editors of the town, such as Rachel McDowell of the Times and Dr. W. A. Nichols of the World-Telegram, did not show up. Their presence would not have been extraordinary because La Maisonette Russe was the first night club...
Another world speed record was made last week by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
...Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian and 15 Chinese dialects, outplay Chinese generals at poker and politics, pen dispatches which his State Department superiors found masterpieces of industry and insight...