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| | The Lithuanian Word. Booksmugglers. Kazys Grinius |
 | | GRINIUS Kazys (1866-1950), third Presiden of the Republic of Lithuania, born in Salema, county of Marijampole, on Dec. 17, 1866. |
| | Upon returning to Lithuania in 1894, he undertook private practice in Suduva (southern Lithuania), mainly in the city of Marijampole, where he asserted himself not only as a popular physician, but also as a leader in the Lithuanian national movement. |
| | Later, as a young practitioner of medicine, he threw himself info underground activities in southern Lithuania, and his offices (in Marijampole, Virbalis, Naumiestis, Pilviskiai) became stations for purveyors of the underground press and for fugitives from police persecution and prisons. |
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