Word: serbian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ship Comes In. A Serbian student in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, fired a pistol 14 years ago. Nearly everything that has been produced in letters since then has re-echoed the barking of that pistol. So too has nearly everything in the cinema. No exception is this story of an immigrant who, unjustly imprisoned, is released only to find that his son has been overwhelmed in the big noise of 1914-18. Rudolph Schildkraut is languid as the immigrant. This is one of two pictures in which able Louise Dresser gives simultaneous, current Manhattan performances...
Behind the hearse of Stefan Raditch, walked, according to the lowest cabled estimates, slightly over 1% of the population of Jugoslavia.* At the climax of this prodigious demonstration, a wreath of thorns was laid upon the grave. From the wreath dangled, on a golden wire, the Serbian bullet which killed Croat Raditch...
...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 living under a Serbian heaven, ruled by a Serbian god who is attended by Serbian angels." The new Slovene Prime Minister is a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anton Korosec who was Minister of Interior in the recently fallen cabinet of Serb Velia Vukichevich. The cabinet was obliged to resign by the titanic scandal which...
Serbia was the traditional Land of Assassinations. Most famed: the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo, the prelude to the World War. Most atrocious: the murder in their royal night clothes of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia in 1903 by Serbian officers in the pay of Imperial Austria. Last week it seemed that although small Serbia no longer exists, having become large Jugoslavia, there has been a throwback to old-style Serbian assassination at Belgrade...
...Majesty calls Dr. Ninko Peritch, President of the Narodna Skupstina (Parliament), to negotiate among all parties with intent to evolve a broad coalition Cabinet. Dr. Paritch is of the so-called "Radical" party-actually reactionary and ultra Serbian...