Word: esthonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Litvinov signed the Kellogg pact renouncing war, and when Soviet Russia led even the U. S. in ratifying it, the hypocrisy of the Soviets seemed proven up to the hilt. But Comrade Litvinov did not stop there. He has been deviling the statesmen of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia ever since to sign a special protocol embracing the Kellogg pact, and specifically binding these nations and Soviet Russia to keep the peace of Eastern Europe...
...Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly for the sale of foreign matches in the U. S. until 1930. Last year International Match consolidated its interests...
...agreements were not equally easy to obtain. Matchmaker Kreuger had to dicker. To win the French state monopoly, he bought $50,000,000 French government bonds. He loaned Greece $5,000,000 for the monopoly. Ecuador received $2,000,000 and a yearly payment. A similar dicker pleased Esthonia. And such a deal was responsible for the $36,000,000 Hungarian bonds for which U. S. and foreign investors began, last week, to make indirect payment...
...Esthonia, Latvia, and Egypt, further reforms are being carried out by the young people, of which the few college students form a nucleus, Pussyfoot Johnson explained. Throughout all Europe there is an agitation for some form of prohibition. In France and Italy, doctors favor a regulation for medical and hygienic reasons, while in England and Germany, there is a feeling for some kind of regulation as a matter of public economy and efficiency...
Frontier Seizure. Mrs. Hallie F. Flanagan, Associate Professor at Vassar, Director of the Vassar Experimental Theatre, arrived at Reval, Esthonia, last week, from a six weeks' visit in Russia. She reported that every courtesy was shown her at Leningrad where a special performance of the Ballet Russe was given in her honor...