Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time since the War that a duly accredited representative of Rumania has appeared in Moscow. For eleven years Rumania and Russia have been at odds, in fact ever since Rumania possessed herself in 1918 of the rich Russian province of Bessarabia (pop. 2,600.000). Thereafter the govern-ment at Bucharest refused to recognize the Bolshevist regime; and, for eleven years, Soviet school children have been studying maps on which Bessarabia appears as part of Russia labeled: "Under temporary Rumanian military occupation...
What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...
...stabilization loan of $105,000,000 will be floated as a result of legislation passed, last week in Bucharest, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies. Behind this transaction stand the central banks of 14 nations.* Their joint representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
...accident, horrible but instructive, took place in front of Rumania's musty, weather-beaten Foreign Office in Bucharest. When jailed the driver of the car seemed neither drunk, blind nor mad, though his explanation was: "I just didn't notice them in time...
Thus ran the key sentence in a most vital resolution adopted, last week at Bucharest, by the Rumanian Women's League...