Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precautions against having the respective diplomats' heads shattered and the respective diplomats' houses blasted by bombs from incensed radicals and Communists. As a result of the conviction of two Italian gunmen (Sacco and Vanzetti) who are under death sentence for murder in Massachusetts, U. S. diplomatic missions in Paris, Sofia, Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Montevideo have been bombed or threatened. In several instances buildings were damaged but no loss of life has been reported. Foreign sympathizers with the convicts declare the Italians are being punished for their radical beliefs...
Indemnity. Bulgarians grudgingly admitted that Dictator Pahgalos was at least prompt when 15 million leva ($110,000) passed from Athens to Sofia last week as the second half of the indemnity awarded by the Council of the League of Nations, as arbiter of the Greco-Bulgar frontier clash (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). The payment was made eleven days before...
...college and the sort of an education they need than students of the same age in the United States," said Mr. F. H. Black, Hon. '15, when interviewed yesterday. Mr. Black is the newly elected president of the American Colleges in Bulgaria which are to be erected near Sofia at a cost of $500,000 next autumn...
...influx of Bulgarian students to Constantinople made it evident that a college was needed in Bulgaria itself and last year it was decided that an American college could be erected near Sofia. The college is to cost approximately $500,000, and work will probably be started this coming August...
...cause of international peace can be better served by education than by any other one cause. In that I agree full heartedly with the Prince of Denmark, whose views on this subject were recently printed by the CRIMSON. The new college near Sofia will be as well equipped as many of the well known American colleges. The plans show a group of buildings which could not be built in America for less than $2,500,000. Manual labor can be hired for nearly nothing and most of the building materials come from nearby sources...