Word: szalay
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...Robert Szalay, vice president of the Atomic Industrial Forum...
Bethlen promptly sent his seconds to call on Gömbös, who wearily trumped up another "explanation." And in Parliament up bobbed a Gömbös deputy who had decided he did not like Eckhardt's manner. The deputy, Ladislas Szalay, offered a choice of fists, pistols or light cavalry sabres at dawn. Eckhardt took sabres and the two men whacked at one another for half an hour, ten rounds, until both were, according to the seconds, "completely exhausted." Sweating and gasping, slightly scratched about the head and shoulders and completely unreconciled, the two went...
...home of Emil Szalay, sausage maker of Flint, Mich., hangs a framed certificate testifying that Emil Szalay's father served two years in the Hungarian army after rebellious Hungary had been subdued by Austria with the help of Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...year ago Emil Szalay, middleaged, plump, walrus-moustached, met George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar...
...hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from the U. S. a few days earlier with Endres' wife and small son; and Capt. Magyar's mother, an aged villager who had not seen her son for five years...
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