Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the criminal, Baron Ludwig Havatny, onetime Hungarian Minister of Finance, retired sugar merchant, launched into journalism at Vienna and wrote a series of articles attacking Count Stephen Bethlen, then as now the reactionary Prime Minister of Hungary, but at that time grappling desperately to establish his government. Count Bethlen's was a "White Terror" as opposed to the previous "Red Terror" of Hungarian Communists under the notorious Bela...
Attacks thrust home at such a moment are keenly felt. For six years Count Bethlen's police have been ready to pounce upon Jew Baron Havatny should he unwarily return to anti-Semitic Budapest. Recently he returned, lulled into false security by the technical expiration of the original order for his arrest. Friends of Count Bethlen had, moreover, allegedly assured Baron Havatny that his attacks had been "forgotten." Last week he was arrested on a new warrant, learned that stern, glacial, silent Dictator Count Bethlen does not forget...
Within the space of four days Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, the expert on naval salvage, and Count Felix von Luckner, the German sea-raider, will speak at the Union, it was announced last night. Tomorrow Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg will relate his experiences; and on Tuesday Count Luckner will tell about his adventures...
Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg conducted the salvage operations on the submarines S-51 and S-4 while Count Luckner is best known for his raiding of 17 Allied ships during the war without killing or injuring a man. Ellsberg has encountered many dangers in his 14 years of experience in salvage work, when diving to direct operations on sunken vessels. For his work in the salvaging of the S-51 he has been awarded the distinguished Service Medal...
...Count Luckner is one of the best known World War figures and is famous because of his daring raids conducted with a camouflaged schooner. He has been decorated several times for bravery and for chivalrous treatment of his prisoners...