Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Baron Frederic Koranyi, 66 Hungarian statesman and diplomat; Minister of Finance (1919) who reorganized the Hungarian financial administrate: after the Soviet regime of Bela Kun; in Budapest...
...last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant...
...picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which was well worth playing widely. Two years ago the Boston Symphony played Harris' Symphony...
...which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
With this in mind, Budapest authorities cautioned all Hungarian newsorgans in advance last week, forbade Hungarian photographers to trail H. R. H. in night haunts and issued a general admonition: ''If one sees the Prince dining in a restaurant, keep your head lowered. Do not stare." These precautions having been taken, Budapest reporters who covered H. R. H. & friends this week limited themselves to stating that he shot wild boars with the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya...