Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most Serbians and many Slovenes write a queer, quaint alphabet, the Cyrillic. Himself a Serb, King Alexander knows that it is hard to change over to the Latin alphabet used by U. S. citizens and all his Croatian subjects. But just now His Majesty is launched on a passionate campaign of national unification (TIME, Oct. 14). Therefore he announced last week that he would shortly suppress Cyrillic by royal and dictatorial decree...
Sometimes a President may prudently say what he dare not write and publish. Last week tall, patriarchal President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, potent Father of His Country (founded Oct. 18, 1918 when Czechoslovakia was recognized by the Allies), spoke privily and at length to a Hungarian of utmost probity, Dr. Franz Rajniss, chief of the Social Institute at Budapest. Returning home in high excitement Dr. Rajniss declared that President Masaryk had outlined to him a series of remarkable proposals for settling the acute Hungarian minorities question which arose when Czechoslovakia received after the War some 14,000 square miles of territory...
Florence Trumbull Coolidge, two weeks a New Haven, Conn., housewife, contracted to write a magazine article on housekeeping...
...best, accommodations for the members of the fourth estate now in existence among eastern colleges. It is certainly a definite proof of the hospitality the H. A. A. wishes to extend to the press, and as such is very genuinely appreciated by all those poor souls who had to write their stories in the rain, darkness, cold, or whatever sort of unfavorable condition prevailed, before the erection...
William Randolph Hearst "paid me $2,000 a month to write articles against the League of Nations and the World Court this summer. He dismissed me when this Senate inquiry was called." Publisher Hearst admitted hiring Shearer "among others...