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...form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase was the printing...
...Strong's companions, are all members of the University. Dr. George C. Shattuck, Assistant Professor of Tropical Medicine, has been associated with Dr. Strong in the Philippines, Serbia, and on their recent trip to the Amazon. Dr. Joseph Bequaert, Assistant Professor of Entomology, was a few years ago entomologist of the Belgian Commission on Sleeping Sickness which spent some time in Africa. Dr. G. M. Allen, is a lecturer on zoology at the University and also secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. He has spent some time in British East Africa and has become familiar with the fauna...
...Belgrade the bitter struggle for political supremacy between the "national minorities"* of Jugoslavia and the "parent kingdom" of Serbia, to which they were joined after the War, was violently renewed. Former Premier Pashitch (Serbian leader of the highly reactionary "Radical" ? Government party) attempted to strike at his archenemy, Stefan Raditch (Croatian champion of the "national minorities"), by causing the ejection from the Radical party of M. Liuba Jovanovitch (leader of the "young Radicals," who secretly sympathize with Croat Raditch...
...made Commissioner to Montenegro. For his relief work in Serbia the Red Cross of that country decorated him and later Prince Alexander of Serbia honored him with the Order of the White Eagle, making him a Commander in the Order of St. Sava III. For his work for the Belgium forces he was made an officer de Fordre de la couronne...
Other Subjects are Stinnes, King Peter of Serbia, Lenin, Bernhardt, Bonaparte in Adversity...