Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome young man was an officer in the Imperial German Navy when war broke out. He was Count Alfred Niezyzhowski, known to the smarter Berlin set as "Al" or "Nizzy." He was not really a "Bosch,"but a fine gentleman from the Polish part of East Prussia; and his uncle, Baron Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador to the U. S., had long been the popular dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington...
...Count Niezyzhowski was assigned to the Kronprins Wilhelm, a destroyer of Allied shipping. On Apr. 11, 1915, his ship was forced into Newport News, Va., for fuel and repairs, was interned. The Count was sent to Fort McPherson...
...applied for U. S. citizenship, accepted the Presidency of the Polish-American Navigation Co., which had a claim* against the U. S. Government. The Shipping Board refused the claim. But the Company had 30,000 stockholders and the support of 4,000,000 Poles throughout the U. S. The Count, their champion, got 25 Harding administration Senators to back his claim. With their signatures, he admonished the Shipping Board to deal justly, not legalistically. The Board would not relent. The Count appealed...
Upon entering the U. S., some three months ago, to visit his sick wife Count Michael Karolyi, first President of the 1918-19 Hungarian Republic, was bound to rocks of silence by U. S. pseudo-Zeus, Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9, CABINET...
Last week, Heracles railway train transported Prometheus Karolyi and his wife across the Canadian frontier, bursting their gyves asunder. The things that the Count wished to say, that the U. S. Department of State forbade him to say and that everybody was anxious he should be allowed to say were said...