Word: migr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
Later, Captain King was opposed in a lawsuit by a blond-bearded young lawyer, Robert Justus Kleberg "The First," son of a German émigré. Kleberg won the suit, and King was so impressed that he hired him as his own lawyer. When Captain King died in 1885 at 60, he left his widow, Henrietta, 500,000 acres of land and a $500,000 debt. She asked Bob the First to manage the ranch. Soon he married her youngest daughter Alice...
Died. René Kraus, 46, able Austrian émigré journalist, biographer (Winston Churchill, The Men Around, Churchill) and onetime politico (in Schuschnigg's pre-Anschluss "inner Cabinet"); after long illness; in Amityville...
...costing the Finns some things they value more highly than money. They must house and employ about 450,000 émigrés-more than one-tenth of Finland's population-from the territories the Finns gave up to Russia. How many stayed behind? The highest estimate I got was 40; a leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland...
From Russian émigrés in Paris last week came a Stalin story. The aging dictator, feeling that his days were numbered, was looking around for a burial place...