Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the names borne by millions of European males, including the Kings of Italy, Belgium and Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male-and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many...
Three years ago the Czechoslovakian Government sentenced another Slovak Separatist to 15 years in jail for fostering just such ideas. Last week they let Father Hlinka and his fellow Slovaks talk, hoped they would do nothing...
...wore out millions of Bat'a shoes. After the feet ceased to march and the Austrian Empire collapsed Thomas Bat'a took his profits across the Atlantic, opened a shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, in 1922, learned all the tricks of Fordized technique. When the new Czechoslovakian Republic had been safely launched, Mr. Bat'a moved the machinery of his Lynn factory to Zlin...
President Masaryk did nothing. Ihe potatoes stayed in Hungary. An official protest by the Hungarian Legation was pigeonholed at the office of famed Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Edvard Benes...
...within 15 min. on the White House south lawn President Hoover had his picture taken with: 1) the U. S. and Canadian Davis Cup teams; 2) nine schoolteachers from Portsmouth, N. H.; 3) 55 members of the American-Czechoslovakian Society of Illinois; 4) delegates from the National Society of the Daughters...