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...that was not to be seen there was the Daughters of the Revolution, an oblong panel of three grim-faced spectacled spinsters standing in front of a framed engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month when it was released from the Grant...
Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...Exalted absentees: homespun Governor General Donal Buckley of the Irish Free State who sent his rugged regrets; and Rumania's buck-toothed Hohenzollern, the bride's "Uncle Carol" who fumed in Bucharest because he was not invited, sent no wedding present...
...bleeding petitioner was led away, Rumanian police redoubled their raiding zeal, had 12,000 people in jail by nightfall. Said Bucharest's Chief of Police: "Anyhow, 20 of these suspects have turned out to be engaged in speculating illegally against the Rumanian...
First Day. First to drop out of the race were Wesley Smith and Jacqueline Cochran, sole U. S. woman entry. They quit at Bucharest. First plane into Athens was the Douglas D. C.2 flown by Pilots J. J. Moll and Koene D. Parmentier of Royal Dutch Airlines. Their longtime service on the Amsterdam-Batavia airway (three-fourths of the MacRobertson route) gave them a decided edge over other contestants...