Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Czech Masaryk allegedly went on to say that his proposals were submitted some months ago in a confidential note to Hungary's steely-eyed little dictator. Count Stephen Bethlen, who ignored them. Seemingly last week the Patriarch of Prague was unsheathing against Count Bethlen the same bright weapon of open propaganda openly arrived at which he wielded mightily during the War until the Powers agreed that Czechoslovakia ought and must become an independent state. Like his good friend Herbert Clark Hoover, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk works by mobilizing public opinion behind "the moral and spiritual values." Last week he declared...
...which has been so noticeable for the past two years seems somewhat out of accord with the decline of pro sports in general. We now have two pro tennis players who are considered to be on a par with the cream of the amateur group in Karel Kozeluh, the Czech wonder, and Vincent Richards, formerly of amateur fame in this country. These two recently engaged in a match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks on the same Forest...
...Vincent Pecha, Czech railway ticket-agent, was making a comfortable meal of fried veal and beer in the station restaurant at Hidas Németi, Hungarian frontier town...
Prague's interest in the Pecha incident was modified during the week by the trial and sentence, in Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
...Czech military court sentenced Falout to 19 years' imprisonment with the following embroideries...