Word: tsankoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sofia wiseacres shook their heads in apprehension. Tsankoff had overreached himself, they said. This was madness, this was suicide...
...welter of Bulgarian names which the announcement sent rumbling across cafe tables, the one soonest forgotten was unfortunate Journalist Pundeff whose murder was being officially investigated. Every Bulgar realized that Pundeff was a mere symbol. The real battle was between Professor Alexander Tsankoff, Minister of Instruction, onetime Prime Minister (1923-26), and Ivan Mihailoff, leader of the dreaded Imro...
Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman...
Professor Tsankoff dared. Protected by a bodyguard of detectives he has worked ceaselessly for months gathering evidence against the Imro. In May the tide began to turn in his favor. He entered the Cabinet of grey-bearded Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff. Imro's Ivan Mihailoff prudently disappeared from Sofia, some say to Italy. Last week Minister Tsankoff persuaded his colleagues in the Cabinet that it was safe to move openly against the Imro. Bulgarians waited breathlessly for the next move, Mihailoffs retaliation...