Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world of today where specialization is the rule, knowledge is apt to become segregated into small pigeon holes. While science and soviet are busy breaking stained glass, any movement which destroys the barriers between departments of learning and shows their common foundation in life performs an invaluable service...
...Soviet] disseminates moral, cultural and also economic decadence by agitation which is both unfruitful and inhuman and in which the sons are instigated to denounce their parents and destroy religious buildings and emblems and. above all, contaminate their souls with all the vices and the most shameful materialistic aberrations. The promoters of these iniquities wish to strike by this agitation at religion and God Himself and to bring about the ruination of minds and even human nature itself...
...deference to melody. Yet it was music done in his first, scorned manner which caused the furor last week-his Scythia Suite, fearfully exhilarating with its barbaric dances, its wailings, its concluding salute to the sun; then his Second Piano Concerto, originally composed in 1913 but lost when the Soviet Government confiscated all Prokofiev property in Leningrad and only recently rewritten from sketches...
...Dept., Washington, D. C., to Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways Bonds for Lilpop, Rau & Loewenstein, Polish car builders. A more personal result...
Elected. Peter A. Bogdanov, onetime chairman of the Soviet Supreme Economic Council; to be board chairman of Amtorg Trading Corp. (semiofficial commercial liaison...