Word: josef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted, he would find himself in the company of onetime President Ignacy Moscicki and onetime Foreign Minister Josef Beck of Poland...
...Dictator Josef Stalin cracked down on Russia's noisy modernist composers. He accused them of "bourgeois degeneracy," confiscated their compositions, told them to stop imitating the sound of Soviet steel mills and cement-mixers, get themselves a few singable tunes. Since then, presumably, the party line in musical Russia has been all nightingale and lark. But because the machinery of the Soviet Musical Bureau (which owns all manuscripts, controls all performance rights) needs oil in its joints, not many examples of this New Musical Policy have been heard outside Russia...
...treaties. His representative at Geneva even began conversations with the Soviet delegate to design ways & means whereby a Russian Army, going to the help of Czecho-Slovakia, could pass through Rumanian territory. Stanch friend of former Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes, King Carol turned down cold Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck's scheme for partitioning the Czech State...
...Seriously ill from long recurrent lung trouble last week at Brasov, Rumanian health resort, where he is interned with other former Polish Cabinet Ministers, was former Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. Suffering from a heart attack in the same house was former Minister of Commerce Antoni Roman...
...Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...