Word: comee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1938 Carol has not only been King but dictator of Rumania. That he should undertake all this reconstruction in such perilous times is perhaps proof enough of his faith in his ability to maintain Rumania as a going concern for some time to come...
Grabby Neighbors. It takes considerable work and ability to be a Balkan ruler nowadays and, particularly in Rumania, the job will not get any easier in the months to come. The old "Playboy of the Balkans," now 46, runs a country of 20,000,000 people whose 113,884 square miles, rich in oil and cereals, are not only the most prosperous in their part of the world, but the most coveted by grabby neighbors...
...also being performed on the King's Palace which is to have two new symmetrical wings and, when completed, will look like a small Buckingham. To complete the work in record time, night shifts work under floodlights. Throughout the city, as new buildings go up, old ones have come down, but around the Palace whole blocks have been demolished to make a new Royal Square between the Calea Victoriei and Boulevard Bratianu, a quarter of a mile away. Centerpiece of this new square will be the equestrian statue of Rumania's first Hohenzollern King, Carol I. Meanwhile, Carol...
...Progress in reverse, a tale of the dissipated, headstrong young man who got better as he got older, winding up a serious-minded, at times even enlightened, ruler. In point of fact, Carol was never a black sheep. He was as good a product as was likely to come out of the court in which he was reared-a court which reeked with corruption and vice, which was ruled by a conniving and ruthless camarilla, in which mother was pitted against son, brother against brother, sister against sister...
...been dropped three years to 18, pushed up two years to 27. What used to be a ten-month elementary course has been telescoped into 16 weeks. (Many of the men will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast and twice as manageable as Germany's celebrated Messerschmitts...