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...Dictatorship" is meant King Alexander's concentration of almost all power in the hands of himself and hard-eyed, hard-jawed General Pera Zivkovitch. Prime Minister (TIME, Feb.11, 1929). When Founder Svetozar Pribichevich saw the Croats playing a poor second to the Serbs in the new government, he promptly protested, was banished to Brus. There he would have remained but for another, a more potent founder: Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
School superintendents throughout Jugoslavia received, last week, a peremptory reminder from General Pera Zivkovitch, portly and bemedaled Prime Minister of Dictator-King Alexander I (TIME...
...Entrusting the government to stern, ruthless General Pera Zickovitch who will act pro tempore as Prime Minister...
...greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
...teams. During winter the large gymnasium is in constant use from ten in the morning till them at night with compulsory "gym" classes and basketball games. Here again class rivalry works up the students to a high pitch of excitement. A series of games is being played with the Pera Y. M. C. A. which is closed contested. One of the great needs of the students is a swimming pool, the Bosphorus being out of the question in winter. There is a movement on foot to build an asphalt tennis court for the students. Such a court could be played...