Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...
During intermission at a Vienna Philharmonic concert old ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria shuffled backstage to congratulate Conductor Arturo Toscanini, received word that the maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston...
...Bulgaria's gabby little capital of Sofia everybody had known for a week that something was about to happen. With Italy at war, it had become of the first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME...
Tsar Boris, addressing an Army review as scheduled, cried grandiloquently: "Bulgaria must remain an independent country, for which the Army is the principal guarantee as long as it remains true to the spirit of its ancestors...
...with mixed feelings: Haile Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...