Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skupshtina or Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...
...from a government bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor...
...theatre. Movie men cranking on the stone piers of the bridge photographed the coxswain throwing up his hands to show his crew that they had crossed the line. Ten lengths behind, the heavy Harvard crew, too tired to sprint, lumbered up to the bridge, collapsed. Said Yale Coach Leader: "I think the lines of Harvard's varsity boat had a great deal to do with the crew trailing so far astern. I noticed the varsity boat in practice seemed to drag and believe the craft was a handicap of four or five boat lengths in tonight's race...
Died. Mrs. Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, 69, organizer in 1903 of the Woman's Social & Political Union, leader of window smashing, Cabinet-heckling British Suffragists, often jailed, always released after hunger striking; two days after the House of Lords had approved the bill lowering the age limit for women voters from 31 to 21; in London...
David Linn Edsall: Dean of our Medical School; in the progress of medical education in America, the leader...