Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lithuania the implications of this statement have been slowly sinking in. Last week grave, cautious President Antanas Smetona ordered Lithuanian youths whose term of military service normally would expire May 31 to remain with the colors another 60 days...
Unable to get Rauschning, the brownshirt gangsters beat up two Polish diplomats, smashed windows of the homes of the Portuguese and Lithuanian consuls for Gdynia, who live in Danzig, and perpetrated upon Danzigers 85 verified assaults...
Despite French and Italian troop movements to the borders and the recent flare-up over Lithuanian treatment of Nazi agitators, European nations have settled into a state of suspended animation, largely due to Sir John Simon's visit to Germany. Again Britain, much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...
...Wealthy widow of the late Senator from Missouri and friend of Presidents Lincoln through Hoover inclusive, it was among her various ambitions to make 16th Street the social stem of Washington, D. C. Buying great quantities of real estate, she induced the Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused...
...Connell was a figure for pious adulation. His Holiness the Pope sent him a long letter of congratulation. At Holy Cross Cathedral the Cardinal celebrated high mass, faltered and wept as he addressed 3,000 people. Eulogies of him were delivered in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Syro-Maronite and Gaelic. Next day 20.000 children attended mass for him at Boston College. Then 30.000 people gathered in Fenway Park for mass and speeches by Senator David Ignatius Walsh, Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield. Half a century ago to the week William O'Connell...