Word: dimitroff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sofia radio casually announced a piece of news: flashing-eyed, mop-maned Georgi Dimitroff, storied revolutionary, had come home at last. After 22 years of exile, the burly, brimstony Bulgarian had taken his rightful place as the No. 1 Communist in the Fatherland Front, his country's dominating political coalition...
...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
Bulgaria's shaky government got no rest from proddings by Germany's enemies to quit Germany's war. Latest poke came last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...
...Shapley cited the observatory's participation in the Inter-American Astrophysical Congres in Mexico as the most interesting of the year's activities. On that occasion the new Astrophysical Observatory in the State of Puebla in Mexico was dedicated. Harvard had lent much of the equipment and Dr. George Dimitroff remained in Mexico for some weeks to assist in the instrallation of some of the equipment...
Harvard professors who will give some of the various courses are Associate Professor Theodore Spencer, Professor Abbott P. Usher, Professor Payson S. Wild, Dr. George Z. Dimitroff, Associate Professor Guillermo Rivera, Senior Preceptor John J. Penny, Associate Professor Raphael Demos...