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...Sudetens, next to Poland's Ukrainians, constitute the largest national minority in Europe. The Slavs held the Sudeten region as early as the Sixth Century but in the Twelfth Germans filtered in as monks, townsmen, traders, artisans. They naturally became the manufacturers of the 19th Century Bohemian industrial revolution. Favored by the Habsburg regime, they looked down on their agricultural Czech, Slovak neighbors. In the post-War years, when the Czechs became the top-dogs they turned the national trade to their allies and friends, which dried up Sudeten markets in Austria, Hungary, gradually supplanted German capital with Czech...
Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
...Livornese macaroni maker, 34-year-old Masini worked once as a stevedore, then as a mechanic, was sent to Milan by admiring townsmen. He claims that he never took a singing lesson, that the Milanese taught him only repertory. He made a debut in Livorno (Tosca) in 1928 and has sung since at La Scala and other leading European opera-houses...
...teeming institutions with free or nominal tuition, the U. S. municipal universities tend to make up in headlines what they lack in number. Municipal University of Omaha caused a sensation two years ago when its President William E. Sealock poisoned himself after quarreling with the conservative townsmen on his board of trustees...
...passes them on. He will also pay a 2% transaction tax into the Townsend Test Fund at the local bank. Thus, if the $200 travels through 50 transactions during the 30-day period, a penurious oldster will have been provided with $200 worth of goods and services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting, and to overcome the possibility of a fluke on their first try, they...