Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep democratic Frenchmen and Britons cheering for him, was King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). Since his death, Yugoslavia has followed an exactly opposite foreign policy of courting the favor of authoritarian states -while not actually flouting France or Britain. Last week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich was so pleased with the way his country's foreign policy was shaping that he crowed in Parliament...
Died. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, 72, Russian sculptor; in Pallanza, Italy. Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue-a Red Indian modeled from a "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show in Milan...
...Indications that Yugoslavia is now tempted to edge away from the constellation of Little Entente satellites of France (Czechoslovakia, Rumania & Yugoslavia), and draw near the Protocol States-which Germany may soon join-were furnished last week by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who turned up in Berlin the day after Colonel Beck. "We are," declared Stoyadinovich, "aware that Germany plays a decisive role in the Danube basin and that no solution of the so-called Danube problem can be achieved without German co-operation...
...symphony conductors cost so much? If it comes to that, why is a conductor? These questions may well have been pondered by R. C. A. stockholders last January when their pudgy President David Sarnoff sent envoys to Milan to induce Maestro Arturo Toscanini to conduct ten broadcasts with the projected NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Feb. 15). Conductor Toscanini asked and got a contract for $4,000 per broadcast, probably the highest price ever paid a conductor. At the behest of plump, practical Signora Toscanini, it was also stipulated that NBC should buy the Maestro a round-trip ticket from Italy...
...jaunt to Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 13 et seq.), undertaken to strengthen French friendship with her mid-European allies. While bound for Prague, the French diplomat, ardent League of Nations supporter, received a neat kick in the pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member of the League, almost before the Delbos train chugged away from Belgrade, Vreme, semi-official newsorgan of Premier Stoyadinovich, boasted that...