Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes rules three major peoples and several minor, despite the fact that all are lumped together as "Jugoslavia." Last week. King Alexander incensed his Croats to fury by entrusting the task of forming a cabinet to a Slovene who promptly grouped about himself Serb ministers. The 800,000 Croats in the U. S. echoed Croat Publicist Stanko Hranilovich when he_ declared in Manhattan last week: "Since 1918 the Croats of Jugoslavia have been oppressed and terrorized by the Serbs. . . . Croatian schools have been closed and now Croatian children are taught that they are Serbs...
...Means crockery was only minor graft in the Department of Justice where he was lodged under Daugherty. He was convicted of taking a bribe from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year...
...Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons and open safety pins are not infrequently swallowed without fatality...
...change last week into the ruling party's actual, active heir presumptive. He clung to his secluded corner office in the Department of Commerce as long as possible, inspecting final reports, perfecting the next year's budget, bequeathing last orders to the large corps of minor executives whose number and loyalty had grown together since...
...There have been ten major epidemics of septic sore throat in the U. S. during this century; many minor ones. Boston had 1,400 cases in 1911; Baltimore 1,000 in 1912; Chicago 10,000 in 1912; Concord...