Word: riga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riga telegraphed Paris, Paris cabled the U. S. and last week every big paper in the land carried the news that Andrew William Mellon had purchased Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba from the Soviet Government for the fabulous...
...cool midnight last week patrols trotted out of their barracks in Riga to take up posts along the empty streets of the 700-year-old city. Telephones rang in army and police posts all through Latvia, and in dozens of smaller towns and villages other patrols went out into the night. Nothing happened, because all good Letts stayed snug in their beds. Next morning they woke to martial law, machine guns posted round the headquarters of the Socialist party, a censored Press and a dictatorship ruling the country...
...Riga, its capital and chief port, is a German city. Founded by a handful of merchants from Bremen, it became one of the great ports of the Hanseatic League during the Middle Ages, was captured by Peter the Great's General Sheremetieff...
President Kviesis and Premier Ulmanis are both members of the Farmers Union, the party of rich farmers and landowners. German Nazis uttered not a peep in Latvia last week but in Riga beer cellars the rumor persisted that the Latvian Fascist society Katsuelit was back of the present coup d'etat and back of Katsuelit was Adolf Hitler, sponsor of Das Baltikum Nazification...
ANCEL BAIRD Riga, Latvia...