Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Leo Smugai, St. Louis chief of the Secret Service, in 1936 Father Balaban fell in with two Croats from his native Yugoslavia, Michael Markalj, who later began turning out spurious money in Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more...
After eight days of close questioning, Father Balaban made a partial confession, said he had hoped to raise money to return to Yugoslavia...
...Crown Prince Michael of Rumania was ceremoniously inducted into the Rumanian Army, of which he was titular commander-in-chief years ago when his father, buck-toothed King Carol II, was in exile. Witnesses of the ceremony were Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. Among the gifts was a sleek Rolls-Royce sent by the Duke of Kent...
...Belgrade. Yugoslavia, Adyar Atchiovritch was sent to jail for four and a half years. Reason: he believed his wife was unfaithful, traded her to a soldier for a donkey...
This time 33-year-old immigrant Author Adamic's subject, lacking the autobiographical ties which have stimulated him in writing his previous books, handicaps him. As with The Native's Return, his best-selling account of a revisit to his native Yugoslavia, Author Adamic wrote The House in Antigua as an accidental result of a pleasure trip to Guatemala in 1936. His original purpose was merely "to get away from it all." He picked Antigua, former capital of Guatemala, because friends rhapsodized over its ruins, and because he "had long been responsive to these lines in the second...