Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years, however, Carol has settled down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts...
Died. Marshal Alexander Averescu, 77, soldier-statesman, Rumania's World War generalissimo, three times (1918, 1920, 1926) its Prime Minister; in Bucharest...
...Bucharest last week, the lying in state of Her late Majesty was in the ornate Byzantine Hall of her Cotroceni Palace, the same hall in which, when giving audience to foreigners she was wont to exclaim as Queen, "I designed this hall. You have admired it, yes. Ah, but you should have seen it when my husband, King Ferdinand, was laid out there at the far end in Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While...
Since Her late Majesty was a second cousin of King-Emperor George VI, to the funeral came the Duke and Duchess of Kent. There was no question of the Queen's popularity, for Bucharest filled to overflowing with Rumanians from all over the country, many arriving from great distances. As Marie of Rumania passed to her last resting place, devout thousands groveled in prayer, made the sign of the cross...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...