Word: latvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deliberately to hurt the serious reader, to lacerate his peace of mind-such is the present avowed purpose of Count Hermann Keyserling. "I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,† "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois, the humorless, the thick-witted, will be deeply, thoroughly hurt. . . . [My purpose is] to demonstrate the absurdity of all nationalist self-glorification...
...Kerensky quotes a Latvian citizen, M. Vladimir Brunowsky, who has deposed that on May 10, 1923, in Moscow, he was approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...
Morris Hillquit, the Latvian-born Manhattan lawyer whose political history is that of the U. S. Socialist party since 1888 (when he was 19), made a "keynote" speech attacking the corrupt, reactionary Republicans and Democrats. "Only a party like ours," he said, "can be relied on to cleanse this immense cesspool of political corruption...
Died. President Jan Tschakste, 67, first president of Latvia (unanimously elected in 1922, by the first Latvian parliament, re-elected in 1925 for a second term of three years); in Riga, Latvia...
...effect of the passing of the Italian debt settlement was to lay the way open for immediate and favorable consideration of other debt settlements arranged and pending before the Senate: the Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Esthonian, Latvian, Roumanian. Since the chief concessions were made to Italy, it called forth the major opposition of the Progressive Republicans and Democrats. Having won the major issue, the majority was prepared to press to easy victory in the minor events...