Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison with Bat'a, is a model of uprightness and humanity. . . . Zlin, the Bat'a Shoe City, is a second Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages. . . . Bat'a speeds up his workers to greater and yet greater output . . . shameless exploitation . . . lower wages than in other Czechoslovakian shoe factories . . . wanton exploitation of the workers, mostly young men and women...
Fellow passengers included three statesmen who will sign the Kellogg Treaty, respectively, for Canada, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. The Canadian was suave, jovial Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The others were Rumanian Minister at Washington George Cretziano and his Czechoslovakian colleague, Minister Zdenĕk Fierlinger...
Sergius Cholmberg, scapegrace grandson of the late Count Leo Tolstoy and son of the Count's daughter Anna, was arrested and tried on a charge of burglary last week in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital. When he wept, begged for mercy, and said that he had read none of his grandfather's writings, the Magistrate let him off with a suspended sentence...
...Afric drums, marked the opening at a theatre in drowsy, medieval Prague, last week, of a U. S. thrill-drama, The Witch Doctor,* once known to Manhattanites as a poor imitation of White Cargo. After three of the characters had been clumsily and blatantly "killed" on the stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many Czechoslovaks, myself included, could have written a better!" Although some...
...serious eyes were bent downward upon a melancholy vision of glory. There was the cold ruin of "Winter in Artois" by D. Y. Cameron of England. For a whole afternoon one man peered at the blurred enchantment of "Pasture," shadowy trees and pale waving hills, by Rudolph Kremlicka, a Czechoslovakian...