Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injured, 125 houses destroyed. Mr. Greenspan had predicted other temblors "in Turkey, Italy and around the Mediterranean" to take place on or before July 14. In that case he seemed to be shooting all around the mark because minor temblors actually occurred on July 13 in Rumania and Bulgaria...
John Henry House, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, is the oldest living graduate of Western Reserve University, an institution from which he received a diploma in 1868. Three years later he graduated from New York's Union Theological Seminary, married and went out to Bulgaria as a missionary. Except for brief visits to the U. S., he has remained in the Balkans continuously for 63 years...
...Bulgaria, a Turkish province, was struggling for its independence; on the Turkish island of Crete, Greeks had just ended an unsuccessful three-year revolt and a curly-haired moppet named Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos was just 8 years old. Dr. House learned Bulgarian, and was instrumental in arranging exchanges of Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners...
Bold, black-bearded Great Exile Professor Alexander Tsankoff staged a successful machine-gun coup in 1923 and was virtual master of Bulgaria as Premier for the next five years. His companion in banishment, Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff, came in as Premier last May at the head of an Army officers' junta that promised to end political bickerings in Bulgaria. Last week these two had hardly set out before Gueorguieff adherents pulled so many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again...
Before he proceeded to the work of "normalizing" Bulgaria, Boris snatched Tsankoff and Gueorguieff back from their romantic exile...