Word: jugoslav
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month Leonida Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...
...Worried Jugoslav elder statesmen reflected that if the Serbs become vexed at having to learn a new alphabet and turn from youthful King Alexander, a revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...
...Marie of Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...
When shrewd agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a "woman unknown," probably "named or nicknamed Milica...
...Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated the anniversary...