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Born in Omaha's meat-packing district, of Lithuanian immigrant parents, John George Goodman was practically unknown when he calmly drove up to the Pebble Beach course in 1929 and qualified for the U. S. Amateur. The following day the 19-year-old Omaha Kid made the front pages when he eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of match play. But in his home town Johnny Goodman had long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when...
...permissible for Britain to intervene with arms and protect her interests in Latin America, but the same doctrine also carries an implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines would avert this outrage...
...world-wide eruption of ill-considered headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister at Tallin a sheaf of promises to resume friendly relations and intercourse with Poland by rail, mail, telegraph...
...London's brummagem, polyglot Soho quarter last week, the end of the Octave of Epiphany-brought the end of a series of services at old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, which had successively been conducted in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Latin, Gaelic, Polish, French, English, Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert...
...attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...