Word: jugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ping-Vulcan and United Swedish were merged into Swedish Match Co.-Svenska Tands-ticksaktiebolaget-and Herr Kreuger had achieved the first of his many monopolies. The monopolistic aspect of Herr Kreuger's activities have caused most comment and criticism. In Poland, Peru, Greece, Ecuador, Hungary, Esthonia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Latvia he has an absolute match monopoly, guaranteed by the governments concerned in return for money loaned them by Herr Kreuger. From the standpoint of a government that is not too proud to monopolize, business done with Herr Kreuger is good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash...
...Royal Scandal (German). Nobody in the little Bavarian town had noticed Frau Jugo until her drawers fell down one day in front of a church. As a partial result of this event her husband inexplicably received a medal from the local prince. Although the comedy is at times heavy and overplayed, in the approved Teutonic manner, it is at other times genuinely funny. Best shots: how a Bavarian Babbitt behaves in his office...
...popular at present in southern and eastern Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...Many Austrians believe that he eventually intends to take over Austria. Thus his grasp on Europe will reach out like a tentacle, holding a gigantic whip-hand. The whole thing comes down to his rivalry with Jugo-Slavia on the Adriatic...
...Jugo-Slavia, the college students themselves enforce a form of prohibition. From their central headquarters in a building which the government has set aside for the organization, the students direct about 20,000 people throughout the country in a movement for prohibition, and publish two dry newspapers. In this work, the young people take the lead, and gradually draw in the older...