Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world press was mildly atwitter, last week, over reports that the long expected transformation of President Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania into a King will shortly be accomplished. Albanians, filthy, wretched, impoverished, fly-bitten, famine starved and earthquake stricken were not much interested. They know that Ahmed Bey Zogu is President because he is also Chief of the most potent of feudal Albanian tribes. There is no one to stop him from calling himself "King," "Sultan," "Tsar," "Shah," "Mogul," "Mikado," "Inca," "Cazique," "Way-wode," "Vaivode" or even "Tycoon...
When the Allies liberated Albania from the "Enemy Powers," it seemed best for the Albanian MUMBOJUMBO to be known as "President"; but Signor Benito Mussolini has recently made Albania safe for autocracy, by extending a sphere of influence over it and encouraging Ahmed Bey Zogu to assume at least the title of "Prince...
Schneider went with Dr. C. T. Erickson to Albania to found a school there for the promotion of the agriculture among the people. Under the Turkish regime, inbreeding had been extremely common so that the cattle were of exceedingly poor stock, and the Albanian ear of corn was only four or five inches in length...
...Albania, a model school was set up, and a farm carried on. Schneider reported that cheering and enrourage a barn before. In this atmosphere the Albania livestock had greatly disintegrated, so that any one of the cows brought from America gives as much milk as any live of the Albanian cows, according to Schneider...
...Telford Erickson, Director of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture will give an illustrated lecture at the Lyman House, 25 Follen Street, to night at 8 o'clock...