Word: jugoslavia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alexander of Jugoslavia, bespectacled Dictator-King, reached the age of 41 last week. His birthday was widely celebrated. In Belgrade 500 citizen delegates, brilliantly embroidered, pranced up and down the streets shouting Zhivoi Kralj! Zhivoi Kralj! (literally: "The King, let him live!") In the royal palace diplomats danced with Jugoslavian beauties. Troops marched and countermarched on the parade ground. Jugoslavian bunting draped public buildings. In New York Consul-General Radoyé Yankovitch gave a birthday luncheon at which U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia John Dyneley Prince announced that "progress in Jugoslavia is rapid," and Dr. John H. Finley...
While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway...
...Zvezvan, Jugoslavia, a wedding party was proceeding to the church when a white-hot meteor 16 inches in diameter hurtled into a carriage in front of the bride's, killed one guest, injured another. The bride fainted, came to, went on with the ceremony...
...national militia of boys and girls between the ages of seven and 20 years"-that was what Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia created last week by a pen-scratch. In Italy a similar militia, for boys only, called Balilla* has been formed by the inventor of this apt scheme for bending twigs of youth, Signor Benito Mussolini. In Belgrade Dictator-King Alexander christened his balilla "The Hawks of Jugoslavia," dubbed his bonny six-year-old eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, "The Eternal Chief of Hawks...
...Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army in the world" he once telegraphed a firm of Viennese ready-made tailors...