Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American College Sofia, Bulgaria...
Died. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, 80, oldest member of the Danish royal house; of bronchial influenza; in Copenhagen. Before the World War five kings called Prince Valdemar uncle - those of England, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Russia. In 1887 he was offered the throne of Bulgaria, in 1913 that of Albania. He refused both...
Assen Jordanolf, at 18, built the first airplane in Bulgaria. Year later he was a Bulgarian War ace, flying on the Salonika front. When the War ended, and the Neuilly treaty left Bulgaria one plane, he flew that until it was wrecked by a hurricane. In 1921 he heard that $1,000,000 was waiting in the U. S. for anyone who would fly around the world. He came over to collect...
...puissance, Führer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting Hungary's Regent, Horthy...
...Eastern Europe, 45 small Hungarian papers were suppressed within the last month, and new laws limited the number of Jews in newspaper jobs. Similar laws are in effect in what is left of Czechoslovakia. In Bulgaria it was announced that no new newspaper can start without permission of a special new Ministry. Lithuania signed a press accord agreeing that the newspapers of each nation will henceforth be "devoid of unfriendly tendencies...