Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LAND OF PROMISE-Leo Lania-Macmillan ($2.50). Unhysterical story of Moses Mendel, a Ukrainian Jew, who fled from Russian pogromists to refuge in Germany. Lania, an exile from the Reich who sticks close to the news, includes in his novel a fictionized account of how Hugo Stinnes cornered industrial Germany during the inflation...
...conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
...Communist-primed pupils in No. 25 sharply criticized the New Haven scrapbook last week. They pointed to a crayon map on which they said the Ukraine had been incorrectly drawn-a charge hotly denied in New Haven next day by the drawer, Moppet Walter Matwych whose parents are Ukrainian. Leafing on through the scrapbook, the Moscow children pointed disapprovingly to a pasted-in-picture of Pilgrim Fathers giving Red Indians a turkey dinner on the first Thanksgiving Day. "Quite capitalistic!" they commented, "Quite bourgeois! Here the white colonists are fraternizing with the natives, but not long afterward they began...
...from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party superiors...
...worked as a nurse, first at the front, later in hospitals. When the Revolution came Marie had met her second husband, Prince Putiatin. They were married in the midst of Red uproars. With him she outlasted the terrors of the winter and in 1918 they escaped over the Ukrainian border. She left her father a prisoner; it was with relief that she heard at last he had been shot, "without further torture...