Word: bethlen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen banged his desk...
Parliament adjourned without fixing a date for meeting again. A committee of 35 was appointed to help the Bethlen Cabinet rule Hungary by decree...
Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen has been continuously Prime Minister longer than anyone else now living: ten years. In that time he has kept Hungary from Communism, weathered the franc-forging scandal which embroiled many of the country's leading personages (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926 et seq.), kept France and her Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) at bay; made an alliance with Dictator Mussolini, signed treaties of friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation...
...goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from the U. S. a few days earlier with Endres' wife and small son; and Capt. Magyar's mother, an aged villager who had not seen her son for five years...
Viscount Rothermere, London publisher who had posted a $10,000 prize for the first flight from the U. S. to Hungary, promptly telegraphed the money to Premier Bethlen with a request to hand it to the flyers...