Word: riga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen to aid Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave him the Iron Cross he had won fighting against the Russians; in Paris, where Conductor Jaroff kicked sharply at an old lady who edged close...
...statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet papers said the Meat Chairman had taken a $50,000 bribe, others raised...
Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
When he was 16, Alexander Siemel ran away from home in Riga, Latvia. When he was 21, he left Manhattan for Brazil. Thirteen years ago, aged 27, he went to live in the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon to mine diamonds. That did not pay too well, so he took up tiger hunting...
Although numerous U. S. correspondents sent out signed despatches quoting the Metropolitan, described minutely the whole scene, still next day in Riga, Latvia, the local Orthodox Archbishop announced the impossibility that Sergius could have uttered his words, and the Morning Post told Londoners that Sergius is a "tool" of the Soviets. Little impression was made in either Britain or the U. S. by the publication cf a statement signed by Chief Rabbi Henachem Gluskin of Minsk, though no one accused him of being a "tool," for all Jewry knows his stalwart saintliness...