Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
...Bucharest last week...
...International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pointedly ignored furious charges by the Rumanian General Staff last week that the small "skyscraper" which I. T. & T is building in Bucharest "will make the capital of Rumania a target for enemy bombs...
Despite the fact that the General Staff officially ordered that construction cease, I. T. & T. went on putting up steel, according to excited Bucharest correspondents...
...Premier Jorga said that a rich American had just offered to found an Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...