Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racially, and here again one has to deal with highly cultured elements which are unwilling to accept oppression without remonstrance. Leaving aside the German element in Alsace-Lorraine, which is largely French in sentiment, the most important German minorities are those in southern Tyrol, under Italian domination, in Czecho-slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests of minorities. Practically all the states of eastern Europe, except Russia, are bound by agreements to accord these...
Coming direct from Czecho-Slovakia, this group of 50 male voices is giving its second concert since its arrival in America. Its first appearance on the American concert stage was made last Saturday before a large audience in Symphony Hall, Boston. A long tour which includes many of the largest cities in this country has been arranged for the group...
...first meeting to take place outside of Europe. Scholars from two Hemispheres comened at Smith Halls as guests of the University and were housed in the Freshman dorintories, Envoys from China, India, Turkey, and Japan represented the Orient, while England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and Czecho Slovakia sent representatives from Europe...
...rains returned, the rivers rose again, and the dikes and bridges, barns, houses and fields of grain in fat Czecho-Slovakia and lower Hungary continued to be inundated and swept away during a fourth week of natural catastrophe (TIME, July 19, INTERNATIONAL). Farmers pled piteously with their governments to "do something." Peasants cursed and blamed the ill-omened new radio stations. Governments lamented, spoke dolefully of sunspots as the cause of disastrous weather. Afflicted mankind was miserable...
...humorist who retouched the story for the screen. But perhaps it is fair enonugh. The Dramatic Club must now have its try. And if it succeeds as III as Metro-Goldwyn, one can only hope that organization return in short order to the garbled gibberish of Russia, Slovakia, and--as has been suggested--points east...