Word: yugoslavic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he became famed as Yugoslavia's finest portrait painter, what Artist Vanka calls "the ironic title of Professor" irked him. Abetted by his wife and by No. i U. S. Yugoslav Louis Adamic (The Native's Return)* he came to the U. S. in 1934, gave exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Last November he came again for good. Last spring when able Franciscan Father Zagar, having paid off more than half of his $98,000 mortgage, decided to beautify his yellow brick Romanesque church for God's greater pleasure and that...
What Premier Stoyadinovich believes in he lately showed by signing with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, son-in-law of Il Duce, a mutual pact of Italo-Yugoslav solidarity. This can be followed by rapid extension of what Premier Mussolini and General Goring call "the Rome-Berlin Axis," making it a ramrod of Power shooting eastward through the Balkans, with Bulgaria already lined up and Rumania not too coy to the seductions of Dr. Schacht and his German trade treaties...
...others with a passion to see Communism come. Driving through Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
Yugoslavia is almost the last European state to have no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Yugoslav royalty and statesmen are most inclined to believe reports that Democratic President Benes is reluctantly in very deep with Communist Dictator Stalin and Socialist Premier Blum, and that Soviet war planes already using Czechoslovak landing fields by night as they speed secretly to Spain, might much more easily from these fields attack Germany. Despite such unmentionables as these at the White Castle in Belgrade last week, friendly gestures were for President Benes to decorate Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, her son King Peter...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled...