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...Once a 20-lei bill was worth $3.86. Today it is worth 12 ¢. Last week, after the new "golden" coins were issued, a contractor called at the Bucharest City Hall to collect a bill for 200,000 (about...
...years ago Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle led a team of airmen through Europe with U. S. Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes...
...bird was bouncing swiftly from bat to bat in the Bucharest Badminton Club one day last week when sad news suddenly spread through the galleries: James Walker Brown had been ordered home. Former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and her friend the Princess of Hohenlohe heard it in the royal...
James Walker Brown is necessary to the existence of the Bucharest Badminton Club because the club plays in and was organized by the Rumanian branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sole survivor of 47 Y. M. C. A. secretaries sent to Rumania since 1919 was Mr. Brown. In the early days Rumanians felt that it was an unpardonable impudence for the U. S. to send them missionaries of any sort. The Orthodox Church was opposed to the Y. M. C. A.; Rumanian students threatened the secretaries with assault. Under efficient Mr. Brown all these difficulties were straightened...
Those entertaining brothers, the Royal Rumanians, were at it again last week. King Carol II, still somewhat tender on the jaw where Prince Nicholas had punched him, forced a decision through the Bucharest Supreme Court that the marriage of slack-chinned Prince Nicholas and his buxom inamorata, Mme Jana Lucia Deletej, was nonexistent. Not satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner...