Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sporting princes are not the monopoly of Britain. Last week, in Bucharest, Crown Prince Carol jumped into his racing automobile, clapped on his goggles, slipped in his clutch and shot off with the speed of a well-oiled wavelength. Precisely, he was contending with 22 others in a race...
Prince Carol is 31 years of age and four years ago was married to Princess Helen of Greece. They have one son, Michel, aged 3. In 1918, rumors of his marriage with a Rumanian commoner (denied at Bucharest) attracted considerable attention. His father confined him for 75 days for a breach of military discipline which was popularly supposed to have been his marriage. Subsequently, so rumor went, he was forced to divorce his bride, having previously attempted to renounce the throne and commit suicide...
...Courts of Bucharest, the Baldwin Locomotive Co., U. S. concern, sued the Rumanian Government...
...battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor of Bucharest, scrappy Paris of the Balkans. The post needed a man skilled in big figures, capable of collecting bills which the outgoing minister* has failed to collect. Would Mr. Culbertson take it? He would and did. The new minister to Rumania was born in Pennsylvania, raised, schooled in Kansas. He attended...
...would remain in Bucharest until he received a fair answer...