Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross and Secretary of the Interior under Wilson (1920-21): "In Bulgaria my train chugged, halted, chugged on. Peasants cheered me at every station. At Sofia, King Boris received me with gratitude. I am now on a good will tour of the world. I fell ill and King Boris' personal physician attended...
...general subject of the series is "Byzantine Art in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". All the lectures of the course are open to the public. Professor Diehl will speak this afternoon on "Bulgaria et Roumanie: les Fresques de Curted d'Arges...
...Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...
...main task of the first congresses was to reconcile the students of the exbellarent countries and this was fairly well achieved by means of travelling student commissions and orator delegates from the various countries. In 1924, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey sent student representatives to the Congress at Warsaw...