Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Against American automotive competition, Europe has just begun to fight!" Thus, vehemently, cried Minister of Commerce Anton Novak last week to Czech and Slovak motorists assembled in Prague for the inauguration of the Czechoslovak Automobile Club. Today U. S.-made cars imported into the Republic total more than one-third the number of cars produced within Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made...
Last week the Postmaster of Trencsen, a town in the Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...Song of the Sea Bedrich Smetana The Wicked Sweetheart Antonin Dvorak The Sparrow's Party Antonin Dvorak Hymnus (Double Chorus) J. P. Foerster The Grim Guest (Double Chorus) J. Kricka On the Field Path J. P. Foerster "70,000" Leos Janacek National Folk-songs and Dances The Evening Star (Slovak) J. Kricka I Have No Joy (Czech) J. Jindrich The Presburg Barracks (Slovak) J. Kricka Tit for Tat (Czech Dance) H. Palla Cardas (Dance, dance and whirl ye around (Slovak) B. Pokorny
...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...