Word: karlsbad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight inaccuracy crept into your admirable publication of Aug. 12, p. 59. In mentioning prominent real estate operators you say: "A third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...ticket-taker, Vincent Pecha was well thought of in his own country. To protest his arrest, Czechoslovak officials halted the Budapest-Kassa train service. Not to be outdone, Hungarian vacationists left Czechoslovak resorts, cancelled reservations at Tatra and Karlsbad, prepared to drink their August sulphur water in Germany instead. Prague newspapers cried for further reprisals to obtain the release of Pecha, talked headily of war. Hungarian authorities, convinced of Pecha's guilt, did nothing but hold their prisoner, prepared...
When correspondents from nearby Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) hastened out to query the pastor, he exclaimed...
According to a despatch from Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia, the President's son has asked Mrs. Robert Leatherbee,† 'daughter of Charles Richard Crane, onetime millionaire-President of the Crane Valve Company. No official announcement was made; that is to come later at Vary Karlovy (Karlsbad) at a reception to be given by the President...