Word: lithuania
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...succeeded by William Walter McDowell, chairman of the Montana Democratic State Committee. Post Wheeler of Washington to Albania. A career diplomat, Mr. Wheeler's last post was in Paraguay. Fay des Portes of South Carolina to Bolivia. John Van Antwerp MacMurray of Maryland to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.** Minister MacMurray's appointment was of major significance as it foreshadowed his selection as first U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia when diplomatic relations are resumed. As a young careerist he served three years (1908-11) in the U. S. embassy at St. Petersburg. In 1925 President Coolidge sent...
...repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
Treasurer of the Dickson City school board is Michael Wolohowicz, nearly 70, who emigrated from Lithuania 40 years ago, worked in the mines, ran a saloon, became prominent in local politics. He raised six children, sent them through high school. He closed his saloon after Prohibition but, portly and walrus-mustached, Schoolman Wolohowicz still resembles an oldtime bartender. He has been on the Dickson City school board for most of the past 22 years, has been treasurer for twelve years, lately getting some $4,000 per year in commissions...
...accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today!" Suddenly and significantly up popped Foreign Minister Dr. Zaunius of Lithuania...
...League remember, urged Dr. Zaunius, how, after Vilna was seized from Lithuania by Polish General Zeligowski in 1920, the League tried boldly at first to secure justice, then let the matter drop. Poland still holds Vilna. Twelve years hence will Japanese troops still hold Manchuria...