Word: ataman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peiping to the north last week the Soviet Embassy called for extra guards as protection from one of the most colorful characters in the Far East: onetime Cossack Ataman General Grigoriy Semenov. With the temperament and figure of an old time Greek wrestler, he has made a good living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid...
...perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
...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...
Dispatches from Paris, with 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...