Word: bucharest
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...holding a solid gold salver with the traditional offering of bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...
...Bucharest the Rumanian Chamber made him an honorary subject of King Carol II and gave him the first Rumanian passport valid for the Soviet Union, which he had just induced His Majesty to recognize (TIME, July 9). On a triumphal progress up the Danube to Jugoslavia, Oldster Barthou was welcomed by athletic young subjects of King Alexander who swam out to greet him with French flags clenched in their teeth...
...daughter was again last week the issue that eclipsed all others in Rumania. It had been understood that King Carol was at last sending away this Jewish Pompadour. She was supposed to have been escorted out of the country and handsomely paid off by the Chief of Police of Bucharest. But last week red-haired Magda Lupescu was found to be still in Rumania and not all the King's censors and all the King's soldiers could suppress for more than a few days the fact that Pompadour Lupescu had come up for action before the Executive...
...long as Mme Lupescu remains in Rumania nobody will be able to accomplish anything good!" cried the Peasant Party's Juliu Maniu, "Most Popular Man in Rumania." Six years ago Dr. Maniu led a mass peasant march on Bucharest (TIME, March 26. 1926). and became Premier of Rumania's first "Reform Cabinet." Last week he threatened similar tactics if the King's mistress is not expelled...
...Bucharest ghetto, legend enshrouds the wiles by which the junk dealer's daughter became La Pompadour. She is supposed to have learned that Carol would drive back one night along a certain woodland road. As the headlights of the royal car cut the darkness, out into the road staggered beauteous Magda, her clothing enticingly torn, her red hair flying. "Save me!" she cried and Carol, struck by her beauty, took her home, has been held by her charm ever since...