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...docile Cabinet of Alexander, the Dictator King who looks like a dentist, and his big-jowled Premier General Pera Zivkovitch assembled hurriedly at the summer palace last week. King Alexander, sober behind his glittering pince-nez, told them that his three-year Dictatorship was at an end (TIME, Jan. 14, 1929 et seq.). Before the Ministers had recovered from their astonishment. Minister of the Court Jevtitch stood up and read them Jugoslavia's new Constitution. This document was evolved by no convention. It is the handiwork of shrewd King Alexander himself. Points...
...everyone had expected them to do, the Wiggin Committee, that sober assembly of international bankers meeting in Basle to consider Germany's credit needs, voted to extend all present foreign credits in Germany for six months but stipulated that Germany must release immediately 25% of the foreign cash balances in Reichsmarks held by government order in German banks, must release an additional 15% monthly. Then, just as the sober gentlemen were all packing up to go home, the full report burst on the world. Concluded the Wiggin Committee...
Divorced. Lady June Inverclyde, London music hall artist, from John Alan Burns, Lord Inverclyde (Cunard Steamship Co.); in Reno. Lady Inverclyde testified her husband insulted her friends, "was never entirely sober," said she would marry Lothar Mendes, cinema director. Lord Inverclyde remained in Scotland, shooting grouse...
Large though his sober soutane was, the young priest had to secrete a quantity of papers so great as to have given a man of faint heart pause. The Holy Father was sending to Paris not one copy of his encyclical, but copies in Latin, Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, etc. etc., all on substantial paper...
Greater than that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch (see above) was memorable Stefan Raditch. When drunk this tubby Croat caroused like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social...