Word: riga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: To a relative of mine who happens be in Riga, Latvia I send frequently your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true...
...Iceman. Twenty-one years ago one Samuel Rubel, immigrant from Riga (Latvia), peddled ice in Brooklyn. Now he is president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
Died. President Jan Tschakste, 67, first president of Latvia (unanimously elected in 1922, by the first Latvian parliament, re-elected in 1925 for a second term of three years); in Riga, Latvia...
Electrician Imprisoned. One Julius M. Chevalier, U. S. electrical worker, arrived from Russia at Riga, Latvia, last week, in good spirits and good health. Since May 19, 1924, he has been, upon his own statement, successively imprisoned and detained without trial upon the mere suspicion that he had furthered anti-Bolshevist plots in the Caucasus. He declared that during the winter of 1925 he was imprisoned on Solovetsky Island, where 3,000 of his 7,000 fellow prisoners died "from insufficient food and intolerable treatment...
Straightway the Chicago Daily News correspondent at Riga provided him with clothing, food. Soon he will journey to meet his children who have been awaiting his release at Constantinople...