Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Compromise. The Russia of Ivan the Terrible, Seitz points out, did not participate in the Renaissance. "The 1917 Revolution seemed at first to be a step which would greatly accelerate the process of Westernization . . . [But] the Soviet leaders have 'abandoned the idea of the Renaissance and are now in the process of developing a pattern of culture as burdened with dogma as . . . anything known in the past millennium...
...your small axes," requested the writer, "and if cost any more for it write and let me known as soon as possible what I owed to you . . . Trusting this find you in good condition ... I am your unknown true friend in Pitcairn Island." The letter was signed by Ivan E. Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny on the Bounty...
Besides three well-worn dollar bills-which were not enough to pay for the axes-Ivan Christian had also enclosed some hand-painted souvenir leaves from the island. Because "the letter kind of appealed" to him, Plumb's Export Manager George R. Beck shipped the axes and thus opened a new account for the company's $250,000 annual export business. Christian soon ordered more axes and hammers for Pitcairn Islanders, paid for them by sending handmade baskets which Plumb's Cashier Elsie Hoffman obligingly sold to friends. After the island got some $75 worth of Plumb...
...Enemy. The Russian navy, Sherman pointed out, is a "very powerful navy"-for Russia's special purposes. And it is growing. Fortnight ago the Russians announced the creation of a separate navy ministry under chunky Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev. His Soviet navy already has 270 submarines, many of the latest design. It is reportedly building its submarine force up to 1,000, and constructing three modern battleships, probably to be used as guided-missile ships...
...Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, 64, head of the Methodist Council of Bishops and the Ecumenical Council of Methodist Churches, announced that he would marry Mrs. Starr Carithers, a widow of Winder, Ga., on March 27. The formal announcement was made in Washington at a luncheon given by the bishop's good friends, Vice President & Mrs. Alben Berkley, at whose wedding he had officiated...