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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Restless little Dictator-King Alexander last week surprised and pained the potent Serbian element in his kingdom who have always been the bulwark of his power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Dangerous Decree | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...stern consort, Alexander I, is called "King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"?three peoples commonly called "Jugoslavs" (southern Slavs) for short. The potent, ruthless Serbs are the dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen Marie and King Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Much in a Name | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Since the eating of garlic and the drinking of slivovitza (plum brandy) are old Serbian pastimes, the fact that their prohibition could be issued and enforced was considered a triumph for King Alexander's dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Breathless Conductors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Boris cast an anxious eye out of the S Street window. It looked like rain. Boris is a Serbian who lost his last name in the war. He works as valet for a big, thickset, friendly-faced engineer whose friends and helpers all call him The Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chief | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Junka Kures, a Serbian (TIME, Nov. 19), strangled a little girl with a shoelace and then abused the corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Furies | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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