Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious Bulgarian sadist, Colonel Kousmazov, has quelled several riots by killing various suspected young men under the eyes of their parents and then forcing the latter to kiss publicly the hands of the dead. . . . Dogs were allowed to fight over the bodies of these men for days afterward. . . . On another occasion suspected young men were tied with ropes and dragged through the streets behind trucks until they died...
When asked whether the Bulgarian government was likely to approve of the American control of its students, Professor Black assured the reporter that Bulgaria recognized her deficiencies in education and hence was very glad to help make the college a success...
...Bulgarian and Turkish students have a far clearer idea of what they want in college and the sort of an education they need than students of the same age in the United States," said Mr. F. H. Black, Hon. '15, when interviewed yesterday. Mr. Black is the newly elected president of the American Colleges in Bulgaria which are to be erected near Sofia at a cost of $500,000 next autumn...
...influx of Bulgarian students to Constantinople made it evident that a college was needed in Bulgaria itself and last year it was decided that an American college could be erected near Sofia. The college is to cost approximately $500,000, and work will probably be started this coming August...
Since the Bulgarian Militarists, led by M. Alexander Tsankov, seized the government from the Agrarian majority party by a coup d' état (TIME, June 18, 1923) and began their reign of terror by allegedly causing the assassination of the Agrarian Premier Stambuliski (TIME, June 25, 1923) numerous foreign observers have characterized the regime of Premier Tsankov "the worst and most ruthless Government in Europe...