Word: kun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...
...notorious international seditionist and Communist spy, Bela Kun, onetime Soviet Dictator of Hungary (for 143 days in 1919) was deported from Austria, last week, in an airplane which soared across Germany and made connections with a steamer for Russia...
Arrived at Moscow, Comrade Kun was wildly cheered by his employers, the Third Internationale, the Sixth Congress of which is now in session. (TIME...
Finally the Court became so disconcerted that Comrade Kun's examination was abruptly terminated, and he received a trifling sentence of one month's imprisonment in addition to the two months he has already spent in jail awaiting trial. Loomed next the question of whether Kun can be extradited to Hungary, where he would be tried and unquestionably executed for ordering 144 executions during his 143 days of dictatorship. Portentously the Court of Justice at Vienna and the Court of Appeal of First Instances ruled, last week, that Comrade Bela Kun should be extradited to face certain Death...
...puny Republic of Austria. The Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, is a conservative, and no fool. He knows that the Communists of Vienna unquestionably possess supplies of arms and that not long ago they staged murderous riots. All would not be well in Austria if Bela Kun, the most prominent agitator in the employ of the Moscow Third International, should come to harm...