Word: bethlen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure we all recognize her and we all recognize him," said Speaker Almassy severely, "but the fact that an actress and a lawyer* have procured gallery tickets and used them for an irregular purpose is, gentlemen, of no great moment." Of maximum moment was a speech by Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen last week, his first since he resigned as Premier (TIME...
...Hungary similar restrictions on private currency exports preceded the "transfer moratorium," and remained in effect last week. To the scandal of all Budapest it was suddenly discovered that the Countess Bethlen, a socialite playwright and wife of former Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, was outside Hungary on a literary lecture tour. Furious Socialist Deputies demanded to know what "sinister influence" had procured the countess enough foreign money on which to travel? Or was she a criminal? Had she secret deposits abroad? What of the new Hungarian law obliging every citizen to put such deposits instantly at the disposal...
...Countess Bethlen is the Countess Bethlen, a law unto her smart, svelte self. She exchanges plot ideas with Statesman-playwright Benito Mussolini. When her plays are produced in Italy he goes to them, claps his hands, wires congratulations. Obviously the Countess Bethlen was earning the foreign money she spent last week by lecturing as she traveled. But amid money hysteria in Central Europe few heads were clear. To Hungarian Socialists the lecturing countess seemed a creature without shame, unpatriotic, diabolic...
Seeking Divorce. Countess Margaret Bethlen de Bethlen, playwright & short story writer; from Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, recently resigned Premier of Hungary (TIME, Aug. 31); at Inkepuszta. Reported reasons: Count Bethlen wishes to marry Countess Anne de Giericzy Szechenyi;* Countess Bethlen wishes to marry Joseph Borgey, member of Parliament and good friend of Regent Horthy...
...dangerous radical. Julius Karolyi is a very great noble. Two years ago he was elected one of the two Custodians of the Crown of St. Stephen, an honorary position. In December 1930 he turned in his little gold key to the crown to become Foreign' Minister in the Bethlen Cabinet...