Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born: Franklin, Ind., Jan...
PRAGUE--The government of Premier Jan Syrovy announced tonight that it had refused, in a note to Budapest, to accept Poland as a participant in any tri-power arbitration of the Czechoslovakia-Hungarian territorial dispute...
...Harry Twyford and Messrs. Gillies and Grenfell were joined by Sir Neill Malcolm, the League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, who appealed to the Czechoslovak Premier, tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy. "We Czechs are determined once and for all that there shall be no repetition of what we have suffered on the grounds of 'German minority questions'" the Premier-General told the High Commissioner...
Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
...Benes last week resigned as President, leaving Czechoslovakia in the firm hands of Premier-General Jan Syrovy, and taking leave of his countrymen in an affecting broadcast which acknowledged with dignity that there must now be a change. Dr. Benes, who is independently well off, retired to his 100-acre estate near Prague, where his gardener exulted: "This is the first time I have had a chance to talk with the President about our tulip beds since last spring...