Word: abramov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York has been a Cossack village officially since 1931," said its taxi-driving local Ataman, Cossack Colonel Peter Fedorovitch Abramov, who somehow manages to send his daughter to Hunter College, his son to City College. "It is very silly for the Press to mention me, as I am not a world leader. Our last was Ataman Bogayevsky who died in Paris last October, necessitating this election. The unit of Cossack life for 400 years has been the 'village' and it was Ataman Bogayevsky who made New York a Cossack village...
...ballots arriving from Africa, Australia and such remote South American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...