Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...
...follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones-U. S.; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert...
...July 12 another White Russian army of 35,000 was to take the field from Lithuania. Rumania next was to contribute another huge army...
Great Britain last week made on time its eighth semi-annual payment of War debt interest (this time $67,950,000), and its fourth annual payment of principal (this time $25,000,000), $92,950,000 in all. Seven other nations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, made payments totaling $3,568,418 more...
Lithuanians were uncertain last week whether a dictator had seized their government or not. Overnight, Conservatives, headed by onetime President Antona Smetona and a former Tsarist Russian officer, Major Plekhavicius, seized and arrested President Kasimir Grinius and Premier Nicholas Slezevicius of Lithuania, both Socialists...