Word: raditch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raditch, however, announced that he would address the peasants. They came on horseback and in carts from the ends of the country to hear him. He stood up before them, a most unprepossessing figure, ill-dressed, half his face concealed by a heavy beard, the other half by thick convex spectacles, for he was nearly blind. He talked to them rapidly, often allegorically and often inchoately. They gave him a reception so passionately loyal, so adoring that it was touching...
Reminiscing of the home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...
...cause of Stefan Raditch's death, last week, was a bullet wound which he received on the floor of the Jugoslav Parliament (TIME, July 2), from the pistol of a Government Deputy who fired amuck among the Croatian Deputies, killing two, and wounding four, including Stefan Raditch...
...Interior in the recently fallen cabinet of Serb Velia Vukichevich. The cabinet was obliged to resign by the titanic scandal which ensued when a deputy of the government party shot two Croatian deputies dead on the floor of the Skupshtina (parliament) and wounded three other Croats, including famed Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian party (TIME, July...
Public indignation finally forced the resignation of the Vukichevich Cabinet, last week; and King Alexander offered the Prime Ministry to Stefan Raditch, who wrathfully rejected the offer, thus leaving the situation perilously embroiled...