Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bucharest, Rumania, Mme Romano returned from a trip abroad to find that her pet monkey ("intrinsic value": $112), which she had left in care of Mme Sanatescu, refused to abandon its new home. When Mme Sanatescu insisted that the monkey's wish to remain with her be respected, Mme Romano sued for alienation of affections...
Although matters touching highest offices of State thus hung in the balance, what seemed to be the trouble was a spat between "Rumania's two Mrs. Simpsons," for in this respect the little kingdom has doubled up on Great Britain. Bucharest's potent Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is titian-haired, curvesome Mme Magda Lupescu, the Jewish companion and adviser of the King. His Majesty feels that his "sacrifice" in not marrying his Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is one which leaves all Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over...
...Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini, Smigly-Rydz of Poland and Salazar of Portugal all want the Spanish war to end in Red defeat, and they were probably right, but in attending the Iron Guard funeral last week they had momentarily forgotten Mme. Lupescu-a dangerous thing to do in Bucharest...
...Premier George Tatarescu hastily offered His Majesty their resignations and burned up wires to Berlin and Rome demanding the recall of German Minister Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius and Italian Minister Ugo Sola. The Cabinet sent "warnings" to the Polish, Portuguese and Japanese legations against repeating the offense of attending in Bucharest an anti-Jewish funeral...
...days Premier Tatarescu, his resignation not yet accepted by irresolute King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were...