Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have been especially designed to torment Martin Dies. It is a conglomeration of 63 national organizations; claims 4,600,000 members, has an organizational structure as complicated as an Insull holding company. Some affiliated organizations: Esperanto Association of North America, American League for Peace and Democracy, Association of Lithuanian Workers...
...oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing. The Balts first learned that they were to be sent back to Germany on a Saturday, when German diplomats first broached the subject to the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Governments. On Sunday a special German Commission to arrange details arrived at Riga. On Friday ten German merchant vessels, the first contingent of 42 specially chartered ships, steamed into Riga Harbor to take home the first batch of refugees...
Wilno to Liths. No. 3 on the Stalin card is Lithuania, which has no naval harbor worth Russia's taking. Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel. Nevertheless, last week in Moscow the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys signed with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a treaty reducing his country to the same status as Latvia and Estonia, but with two new wrinkles...
...Lithuanian Maginot? Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys, who followed Estonia's Selter and Latvia's Munters to Moscow, was reputedly presented with a startling Soviet proposal that the Red Army should construct strong fortifications along the Lithuanian frontier with Germany and should have the main railways crossing Lithuania from her ports to Russia permanently patrolled by Soviet forces, in addition to establishment of Red "bases." Lithuania asked that its former capital Wilno, which was seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno...
Colonymaid is the fifth textile plant that Rector Colony has established in the past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke...