Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final...
...Bavarian Socialist Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...
...Alexander found, Slavic brothers do not always agree. The Serbs, 6,500,000 strong, had always ruled, intended to continue to rule. The 4,000,000 hardworking, stubborn Croats, used to their own local Diet at Zagreb even under the Habsburgs, felt they were a repressed minority, agitated for local autonomy, civil rights, the secret ballot, constitutional reform. The Slovenes, 1,000,000 of them, clustered up near the old Austrian border, shrewdly bargained for political favors. Thrown in also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority...
Millvale's murals were especially satisfying to the artist because they were his first big job in the U. S. and they were done for his countrymen. Born in Zagreb, ancient capital of Croatia, Maximilian Vanka grew up with peasants, did not discover until he was a young man that he was an illegitimate son of a noble family. As a fachook (noble bastard) young Maximilian belonged to a well-recognized caste in Croatia under the gay regime of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy...
...Consul in Jugoslavia. "He got to have proof can I support her. I tell him about Wiseman. He no listen. I been to Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again. I spent already extra thousand dollars. Such a damn fool law. Who the hell...