Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dignitaries meeting Vaclav Pallier, Czechoslovakian Minister to Hungary, at the railway station in Budapest, were astonished to see him descend from the train clad only in pajamas. He explained that his trousers had been stolen overnight; he had no others with him. The trousers were found later in a cornfield. The Minister's pocketbook was not in them...
...year ago Emil Szalay, middleaged, plump, walrus-moustached, met George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar...
...ocean during the 16-hour crossing. It was as predicted, a struggle with fog, rain & low clouds the whole way. But Navigator Magyar caught many radio bearings; the monoplane, another Lockheed, hit the coast of France only a trifle off course. They had estimated 26 hours flight to Budapest with two hours fuel to spare. But headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers...
...British Foreign Office, likely candidate for Ambassador to the U. S. some day (he prepared all for Ramsay MacDonald's U. S. visit), widower son-in-law of General William Christian Heppenheimer of Jersey City; and Lady Barclay, widow of Sir Colville Barclay, onetime British Minister at Budapest...
...Budapest, Rudolph Steinherz,*; wine- merchant, got young Lajos Naghazy to murder him in a railway carriage. Object: that the Steinherz family might collect a large insurance policy. Honorarium to Lajos Naghazy: a gold watch...