Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegation heads from 13 countries were present, representing the United States, England, France, Germany, Cuba, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, and Abyssinia. Although Turkey, Japan, and China were not in attendance, they have been consulted and are in favor of the body. Wolfgang Magnus of Germany, chairman of the initial committee, also explained the methods which the league will use. Speeches by A. D. Cadman '34 who will be the English delegate, Ulrich Kersten gr.L of Germany, and R. F. L. W. de Visme 1G, representative of France, followed...
Other speakers (to the never more than half full Congress hall) were those of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Jugoslavia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Uruguay...
...list of countries from which students have come to Harvard this year is as follows: Abyssinia, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Porto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela...
From Sofia came rumors of a general Balkan moratorium. Premier N. Muchanoff of Bulgaria blurted out that his country must default on its debts if it did not receive more money from the League of Nations (Bulgaria owes the U. S. some $27,000,000). Greece had already made such an announcement. Two days later Premier Muchanoff thought better, denied that he had "said anything concrete on the subject." Harried Albania set up not one but five separate commissions to think of ways of raising more money. Rumania's Finance Minister, Constantine Argetoianu, was in Paris, begging. Spectacled King...
...Laszlo Szechenyi. Count Laszlo Szechenyi is no relative of Painter de Laszlo who was humbly born at Budapest in 1869. After a few years in Budapest Industrial Art School, he stopped doing things humbly. At 25 he was summoned from Paris to the summer palace of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist...