Word: milan
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Gallows built in sections in Detroit were shipped to the Milan (Mich.) penitentiary. The arrogant Stephan melted into whining hysteria. Hundreds of softhearted Americans and, reportedly, Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy (who opposes capital punishment) appealed to the White House for clemency...
Yugoslavs & Serbs. Last January Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich resigned. His resignation was a defeat for those groups which were working for postwar Serb domination of Yugoslavia. Candidate for the Foreign Minister's post was liberal Serb Milan Grol, Minister for Communications, who had the support of three of the five Serb parties, as well as of the Croats and Slovenes in the Government. But the two pan-Serb parties threatened to quit the Government if Grol became Foreign Minister, and so Premier Yovanovich took the portfolio...
Thus the exponents of Yugoslav unity administered a defeat without winning a victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
...disgust at the maldistribution of food, at flagrant profiteering and the inability of Party functionaries to meet recurring war crises, a strong underground has developed. Despite a raid on a Milan printshop last month, which jailed five negotiators, the underground groups-Socialist, Liberals and Communists-last week have established a joint "Committee for Peace and Freedom" (TIME, May 3) and United Front organizations in at least six northern Italian cities. They claim the organization of a wave of strikes which began in March and at one point called out from 40,000 to 50,000 men. Through widespread circulation...
...several years in Milan one Maria Miama has gone round telling rapturous tales of seeing the Blessed Virgin, getting messages from...