Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumanian Royal Palace at Bucharest: Dowager Queen Marie: "I know what the Empire means, for remember, I was an Englishwoman. . . . The King will do the right thing, for he is an Englishman...
...place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years, he had nonchalantly spent abroad, in Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, the weeks during which his Democratic opponent was berating him. This year, when the votes were counted, he was found to have beaten his opponent nearly...
Increasingly pot-bellied King Carol of Rumania was last week back in Bucharest, his capital, after an eventful visit to Prague where he had discussed future policy towards Russia with Czechoslovakia's pro-French President Eduard Benes. To Prague also went Carol's 15-year-old son, rolypoly Crown Prince Mihai, for King Carol, suspecting that his former wife Princess Helen might return to Rumania in his absence and make trouble, was not taking the risk of leaving Mihai behind. So strongly did he feel about what he considered to be Princess Helen's capacity for mischief...
...King's exuberance was soon damped on his return to Bucharest. Rumania's Fascist Iron Guard made it abundantly clear that they disapproved of his hobnobbing with President Benes whom they consider far too sympathetic toward Russia for their peace of mind. In a bold manifesto, the Iron Guard declared they "will not hesitate to shoot Carol down rather than fight for Bolshevism...
...Bucharest, Rumania, onetime Sexton Ion Glicherie was arrested for selling space in Heaven to peasants at 16 lei (16?) per square yard...