Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Angeles, Ivan Whitfield, 25, told a Navy recruiting officer he had never kissed or hugged a girl, eaten chicken or chocolate ice cream, talked with a girl on the telephone, smoked, drunk, danced, watched a prize fight, or stepped aboard a battleship. "I might switch over on a few things," he observed...
...elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come back or lose what remains of her sorry face, is made easy by artillery planted on Morava and on Mount Ivan...
Strong man of Bulgaria is Minister of Agriculture Ivan Bagrianoff, onetime palace companion of Boris, whom he is privileged to address with the familiar "thou." He was an officer in World War I, then turned his attention to large-scale farming on his estates near Razgrad. Grooming him to succeed scholarly Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, the Axis called him to Berlin last week to learn the knack of dictating under orders, then on to Rome for further instructions...
Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...
...week's end Bucharest announced it had accepted "in principle" the cession of southern Dobruja. This week Bulgaria's Minister to Moscow Ivan Stamenoff flew home, occasioning suspicions that Russia was disturbed - presumably because Bulgaria was submitting to Axis pressure and not demanding the whole of Dobruja and therefore a common frontier with Russia. Bulgarians and Rumanians worked meantime on details of their Axis-sponsored agreement. One detail on which the Bulgarians were reported to have been softhearted: they agreed that the shrine where the heart of Queen Marie reposes should be surrounded by a little plot...