Word: pashitch
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...Premier Pashitch showed once again his formidable "iron fist." By order of the Government, the three YugoSlavian Universities were nationalized. Trouble started when several Croat professors at the Croatian University at Zagreb (Agram) were pensioned off. Students went on strike. A few days later, students of the Ljubliana (Liabach) University struck. In the capital, at Belgrade University, a strike was also declared. A gun fight ensued between the students and the gendarmes-10 of the former, five of the latter were wounded. In the western limits of the Kingdom, a mighty shout went up from Croat and Slovene throats...
...Nikola Pashitch, "octogenarian monocrat," became so obsessed with his power to rule the Balkans with an iron hand that his views, somewhat arbitrarily enunciated, were reported to have angered King Alexander, a determined and able ruler. Result: Pashitch, who was then Premier, resigned, having first advised a general election (TIME, July...
Last week, the King capitulated. Pashitch was reappointed Premier. It was announced that the Narodna Skupshtina would be dissolved, a general election called...
King Alexander declined to follow ex-Premier Nikola Pashitch's advice to call new elections. He sent for M. Yovanovitch, President of the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly) and asked him to form a Cabinet...
With all his faults and ambitions Pashitch is a picturesque old man and has earned for himself by his labors the title: "Grand Old Man of Serbia." He hopes to live to see prosperity brought to the Balkans. He seems to have a good chance, for his father lived to the grand...