Foreign Language Press Survey

p. 3.- From the enthusiasm the young Greek ladies of Chicago are showing in our popularity contest, we can safely predict that the Mardi Gras in the Ball Room of the Sherman Hotel on the 27th will be a great success. Our tickets are being sold at a rapid rate, so get yours while you can.

The legislative proposals regarding registration of aliens, which have been submitted to the Congress have encountered such strong opposition that their sponsors have given up all hope of bringing about a final vote during the current session. Even Senator Blease's bill, which provides for vo

p. 2.- A stranger, recently passing through our city, was dumbfounded at the number of coffee houses and customers we have. He went away astonished still not understanding why those employed as well as the unemployed go there. He couldn't understand that it is in the Greek blood. A Greek come

I have visited the prominent physician and surgeon of our city, Mr. Stam. Demosthenes Zapheriades, known as Dr. Zaph. With his simple and kind manner, as becomes a Greek, he welcomed me, the worthy minister of the divine art of Hippocrates. .....Although he rightly guessed the purpo

If we are to judge from the hundreds of Greek girls who entered the popularity contest, and thousands of votes already cast for the winners, it is apparent that the contest is going to be a stimulating event. The affair will take place April 27th, at the Sherman Hotel, and thousands

An organization named the Swedish Literary Society has just been formed in Moline, Illinois, on the initiative of engineer Charles A. Carlson. According to its statutes, its purpose is to promote love and respect for the language of our fathers, and to keep alive the interest in Swedish liter

p. 3.- The Ahepa Excursion to Greece gave many of our Greek women, who had immigrated to the United States when they were very young, the opportunity to visit their homeland. The women of Greece were very curious to hear their impressions so Mrs. J. Sotirakos, wife of the doctor, graciously c

p. 2.- For ten years our community has heard about nothing but churches, priests, bishops, Venizelists and Royalists. In the coffee-houses, in the restaurants, on the streets, - These subjects are discussed everywhere. The one problem which should have more attention - that of Greek

Another sympathetic figure of exceptional ability and with a deep devotion to Orthodox Judaism in its broader and finer sense, is that of Mrs. Benjamin Davis (nee Jeanette Isaacs). She was born, educated, and taught school in the city of New York. From her scholarly father and broth

p. 5 There isn't a Greek in Chicago who does not know the philanthropic educational institution situated in the heart of the Greek district, Halsted Street, known as Hull House, whose manager and founder is our beloved Jane Addams. To the Americans, Hull House is a colorful story. T

[Translator's note: A Swedish-American district society is an organization of people who hail from the same district (province or county) in Sweden]. During the last few years reports have, from time to time, appeared in the Swedish-American press, of people from certain districts i

The Seventeenth of May is Norway's Independence Day. There are many points of similarity about the gathering of the Congress at Eidsvold in 1814 and the gathering of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1776. The economic and political conditions that caused the convening of these two

p.5. As we have mentioned previously, we are planning a get-together for young folks of varied interests and activities, with clubs and organizations of young folks of Lithuanian descent. We are aiming to bring into closer contact as many as we possibly can. No, we do not plan to unite the

p. 6.- This time I have visited Mr. G. Boukides, florist, opposite the Drake Hotel, who received me with all kindness, and said: "I have noticed various opinions of our fellow-nationals unfolding in the Greek Daily, which seem to stir us to think better, even if we do not try to put our thoug

At the Lincoln Turner Hall the United Men's Choruses of Chicago, offered last night something entirely new to music-loving Chicagoans, who enjoyed an evening of songs during which twenty-one Men's Choruses, made into twelve groups, sang under the baton of a temperary conductor. This event can

No matter how advanced a Jew may be - even one who has severed all ties from his fellow Jews and is thoroughly emancipated - yet in the event of a great national catastrophe, or when a problem arises that concerns the whole world, he may feign indifferences as to its effects on his own people,

Alexander Vladimirovich Meyerson was born in June 1892, in the city of Astrakhan. Having graduated with honors from the first high school of this city, he entered the Department of Mechanics of the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute, and at the same time attended the classes of the Gatchina School

Italians? The Americanized Italian who has found America quite to his taste and consequently has learned to live according to American standards knows well enough what to do with his money and where to put it. Though the Italian has become thoroughly Americanized, traces of the old soil still

The League of the Liberation of Ukraine, organized in Chicago, resolved to make the Ukrainian conscription here in Chicago. It was resolved and done. It must be said in advance that the planned conscription of all the Ukrainians living in Chicago was not completely successful, as the League w

pan. 6.- The United Greek Communities invite all members to a general assembly on June 22, 1930 at three o'clock at Callas Hall, 748 S. Hasted Street. Cooperation and peace among the communities will be stressed. Many speakers will be present. Every person interested in progress in the Greek