Word: serbian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg...
...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 in reverse of, "The McMullens...
...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...
Roumanian Orthodox Church, which until last week had no distinctive head here. Reverend Professor Lazar Gherman of Manhattan is the Archimandrite. But he has been functioning under the general supervision of the Russian Orthodox Church through its Manhattan headquarters. (His home Church is in communion with Greek, Russian, Serbian and other Eastern Orthodox Churches.) Last week the Holy Synod in session in Roumania decided to create a bishopric for the U. S., with headquarters in Detroit...
...Record: 1) 1915-Conquered Galicia and its oil fields for Austria. As commander of the 11th German Army Corps, campaigned against and forced the abandonment to Germany of Warsaw and all Russian Poland. Transferred to the Serbian front, destroyed Serbia as a War factor and opened the road along which Germany poured munitions into Turkey. 2) 1916-Commanding the 9th and 11th Army Corps, operated successfully against Rumania, putting Rumanian resources of wheat and oil at Germany's disposal. 3) 1917-Directed the Teutonic offensive against Russia, which opened the way to the Black Sea on the collapse...