Word: riga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John Van A. Macmurray ticked off on their fingers the days to their departures. For a diplomatic pilgrimage was on, a pilgrimage of which the holy city was Washington, the temple the White House, its shrine the ear of Franklin Roosevelt...
...cinema producer; and Helene Thimig, his longtime great & good friend, member of a famed German acting family; in Nevada, en route to Hollywood, where Reinhardt lately completed filming A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Reno last month he obtained validation of his divorce four years ago in Riga, Latvia, from Actress Else Heims, who threatened to charge bigamy should he remarry...
...Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars on which they could lay their hands, and still operate them. Germany operates more of her own sleeping cars than any other continental power. But Wagons-Lits expresses such as the "Nord Express" roar nightly over the Paris-Berlin-Riga route...
...Assumption Day last August important art news leaked from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME...
Twenty-four hours later, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury broke off his grouse shooting at his lodge in Perthshire, Scotland long enough to deny the Moscow-Riga-Paris-U. S. news leak in the following words: "I have not bought the Alba Madonna or any other Soviet art. This story has cropped up recurrently for the past three years. Each time I have denied...