Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsuccessful endeavors of Peter Augustus Jay, U. S. Minister to Bucharest, in attempting to dissuade the Rumanian Government from enacting a bill prejudicial to the interests of U. S. capital in Rumania had but one result: able Diplomat Jay is returning to the U. S. to explain to the State Department the complicated situation...
...neither one nor the other of these plans did they succeed and, after being made to feel by both France and Britain that they had outstayed their welcome, they were forced to return empty-handed to Bucharest. The Bratiano brothers stuck another feather in their caps by having the Mineral Rights Bill passed by both Houses of Parliament...
Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...
...Bucharest press announced that the Rumanian Army Command had decided to hold maneuvers in Bessarabia (TIME, April 14) during the Fall. In addition to the regular Army, all reservist officers and 100,000 recruits will take part. As possession of Bessarabia by Rumania is acutely disputed by Soviet Russia, the decision to hold maneuvers there was not thought tactful nor likely to lead to a peaceful solution of the Russo-Rumanian...
...Bratiano, paunchy Rumanian Premier, Alexander Constantinesco, Minister of Finance, and M. Atnonescu, Minister of Justice, left Bucharest for Brûsa near Constantinople to negotiate with the Turks a military alliance against Russia. The parley came to an abrupt end, however, Russian influences having forced Turkey to decline a Rumanian alliance...