Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube, across to storied Thebes, to Troy, down through Asia Minor to defeat Darius and his Persians, on to Egypt, to India...
...find out what old Mr. Ball had been up to of late. Mr. Ball had been in Washington getting acquainted with RFC Chairman Jesse Holman Jones. He had been in Cleveland. He had been in Manhattan. But his secretary at Ball Bros. Co. on Muncie's Macedonia Avenue soon scotched the idea that Mr. Ball was selling his 90% equity in Midamerica Corp. That Mr. Ball had received propositions was certain. Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen ("The Great") Eaton for one had been trying to recruit a buying syndicate...
EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard -Smith & Haas ($2.50). In the maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which...
...broke with previous Greek policy by joining the Balkan League of Bulgaria and Serbia and ganging on Turkey in the first Balkan War. This time Greece won. In the squabble over the spoils, alert Venizelos formed another alliance with Serbia and ganged on Bulgaria. Spoils: most of Macedonia and the Aegean Islands, the most productive lands in the realm and 100% more people...
...life Venizelos had worked to consolidate Greeks in Greece. The desperate adventure this month of his last revolution between the peninsula on the one hand, the islands and Macedonia on the other, marked the first time he had ever fought to split Greeks. And for the first time he failed. Once more ''the shivering of the dying and the malediction of man'' fell upon Venizelos. The 71-year-old man, who fled last week to a swank Italian hotel in Rhodes with a private beach, groaned, "I am tired by the hardships and disappointments...