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...jail, but in a hospital. He did not particularly mind being in a hospital. What enraged all the Pribicheviches was the Government's announced resolve to banish Brother Svetozar Pribichevich for a second time to the tiny Serbian village of Brus, 20 miles from the nearest railway. When told last week that he would be sent back to Brus, Svetozar Pribichevich, a small, lean man, dramatically went on a hunger strike. Wailed Mme Bosilka Pribichevich: "My Svetozar will die! He will die!" "Svetozar," cried Col. Milan Pribichevich, "will die rather than yield!" "Svetozar will never yield to the Dictatorship...
...German attempt to form a customs union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
...fill their eyes with the biggest ship that ever came to Canada. biggest plying between Empire ports. biggest built in Britain since the War. Canadians came by excursion trains to Quebec last week, roared through a new 1 ½ mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under the city, came out at a spandy new pier and suddenly beheld the towering white, three-funnelled Empress of Britain...
...Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railway. Absent will be Trustee Herbert Hoover...
Died. Albert Earl Clift, 61, president since 1929 of Central of Georgia Railway and Ocean Steamship Co., onetime (1924-29) vice president of Illinois Central Railroad; after an operation for stomach ulcer; in Savannah...