Word: latvians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tireman Harvey Firestone arrived to announce that trade would be improved "by putting the Golden Rule into effect in business dealings." ¶ The President appointed Henry Frank Holthusen-, onetime Latvian and Estonian consul in the U. S., an accomplished amateur magician, to be U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The nomination was purely honorary, because the Senate is confirming no Hoover appointments. ¶ Mayor Munroe Stiner of Larchmont, N. Y. (pop. 5,282) called to philosophize: "This is a bad year for Mayors, Mr. President...
...last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry...
Before the War, the city of Riga was the second most important port on the Baltic. With the re-establishment of Poland and the creation of Latvia, Riga shriveled. Poles built a port of their own at Gdynia. Foreign steamers that used to call at Riga passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga...
Next move was to make Riga a Baltic Reno. Gambling casinos opened. Latvian divorce laws are enticing: with residence established, divorce may be obtained upon proof of three years' separation. Last week the Baltic Reno appeared in U. S. headlines. In Riga, striving once more to divorce Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, was Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Mrs. McLean, having stopped one Mexican divorce by a court order, was working desperately to halt this by another. She obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean...
Divorced. Max Reinhardt, German producer (The Miracle, Jedermann) ; from Elise Heims, actress; in Riga, Latvia. Frau Reinhardt, who had refused for twelve years to permit him to divorce her, appealed the decision on the grounds that though he owns property in Riga he is no Latvian but a Czecho-Slovakian citizen...