Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despatch from Bucharest, last week, told that Prince-Regent Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
...abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (father of Baby King Michael) continued to reside in his country villa near Dinard, France, last week. To a correspondent, who asked if the death of Jon Bratiano, foe to Carol, would cause him to return at once to Bucharest, the abdicated prince replied: "You see, I am not preparing to leave for Bucharest. I must await developments in the situation in my country...
...Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano said: "There is no chance of Carol returning. The death of my lamented brother spelled the end of the Carolist agitation...
...funeral train returned to Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano held an extraordinary session of his cabinet in one of the cars, and in another the Dowager Queen Marie addressed correspondents: "Jon Bratiano was a leader, a master, a man, whose unswerving friendship bound us together through long years of hard and difficult labor. We believed in each other, and my absolute loyalty to his ideals made us collaborators who kept the faith. I was strong enough to rejoice over his strength. . . . He now belongs to the ages. . . . We can but bow our heads...
Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat...