Word: bucharest
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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 red-haired Magda Lupescu, mistress of King Carol, has been openly appearing at social gatherings of late, openly flaunting the fact that she has ousted Queen Helen. Fortunately Rumania has an able diplomat and statesman, M. Nicholas Titulescu, high in the graces of the Great Powers. He, Rumanian Minister to Great Britain, was in Switzerland last week as President of the Assembly of the League of Nations and Chief Rumanian Delegate to the Geneva Conference...
Picking up a telephone King Carol got M. Titulescu at Montreux, commanded him to return to Bucharest. A year ago the King and his old tutor intrigued among Rumanian politicians with the result that M. Titulescu was obliged to announce: "I find it impossible to form a Cabinet...
...reaching Bucharest, M. Titulescu hurried to lunch with King Carol. Suddenly there were screams as of a man in mortal terror. Rushing to the window His Majesty & Guest saw a three-story scaffolding set up against the Royal Palace collapse, saw a workman mad with terror plunge to death...
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...