Word: bucharest
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...Courts of Bucharest, the Baldwin Locomotive Co., U. S. concern, sued the Rumanian Government...
...battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor of Bucharest, scrappy Paris of the Balkans. The post needed a man skilled in big figures, capable of collecting bills which the outgoing minister* has failed to collect. Would Mr. Culbertson take it? He would and did. The new minister to Rumania was born in Pennsylvania, raised, schooled in Kansas. He attended...
Meanwhile at their capital, Bucharest, the Bratiano* brothers further excited the rage of foreigners by passing a bill which amounted to confiscation of U. S. and other property...
...would remain in Bucharest until he received a fair answer...
...there was a Reichsbank at Berlin groaning under a terrible burden of debt. It was decided that the Rumanian Government must pay for the costs of the German occupation; but there was no Rumanian Government?it had fled. Thus, it came to pass that the Banca Generale at Bucharest was compelled to issue Rumanian bank notes to the amount of $75,000,000 to pay for the German occupation...