Word: galician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of U. S. v. Strecker (TIME, Feb. 20), the Court had to decide whether past membership in the Communist Party of the U. S. constitutes ground for deportation of an unnaturalized alien. The alien in the case is Galician-born Joseph George Strecker, a coal-digger who became a restaurant proprietor in Hot Springs, Ark. and there dallied with Communism to the extent of joining the party, but who paid dues only once. Last week the Court ruled 6-to-2 (Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting) that past membership in the Communist Party does not of itself justify deportation...
...Ukrainian separatist movement of the 19th Century was little more than a dream fostered by a few Galician intellectuals. During the World War it became a German-imported article which reached its greatest success when the Tsar was overthrown, the Russian armies collapsed and German Warlords Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decided that the Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White...
...more lives in the Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
...quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst who eventually blackmailed von Cramm to the tune of $12,000, hopped off to Palestine. Sentence pronounced: one year in jail, with the two months already spent in confinement to be deducted...