Word: dimitroff
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...Reichstag building (TIME, March 26, et seq.). Center of interest was still the dull-witted Dutch arson boy, Marinus van der Lubbe (only defendant to be kept manacled and in prison garb in the court room). Chief pain to the prosecution was still the pugnacious Bulgarian Communist Leader George Dimitroff...
...have been in jail for seven months, five of which I was chained day and night and compelled to live in en forced silence." Dim-witted Defendant van der Lubbe could scarcely speak German. Two of the Bulgarian defend ants could speak none at all. But fiery George Dimitroff, for 23 years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after the horrible bombing of Sofia's Sveti Krai Cathedral in which more than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death...
Last night under the auspices of the Harvard Mission. Mr. G. Z. Dimitroff, of Roberts College, Corstantinople, spoke in Standish Hall on the subject. "College Life in Europe" Mr Dimitroff, a Bulgarian, spent three years at Robert College, an institution founded by Americans in Constantinople. Since then he has spent six years at Boston University and at Harvard, concentrating in the field of Astronomy...
Five others -Petrini, Kossofsky, Grancharoff, Abadjieff, Dimitroff-who are all at large-sentenced in absence. Public execution...