Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from decorating M. Franqui. All the world knows that it was M. Franqui who negotiated the $100,000 000 loan which stabilized the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8). Therefore King Albert warmly eulogized M. Franqui, bade him a pleasant journey to the Riviera whither he departed to recover his health, impaired by his great labors. Before he left Brussels, M. Franqui resigned as Finance Minister, but not until he had drawn up a voluminous memorandum covering every discernible contingency of Belgium's fiscal future...
...last His Imperial Majesty rallied. His health and appetite improved. Devout Nipponese gave thanks, rejoiced, disported themselves...
...true that Her Majesty has received no official call to return to Rumania, but since there have been so many conflicting reports regarding the King's health she feels she must return at once in case there is any possibility of there being any truth in these reports...
There was no lack of sufficient reasons for Her Majesty's return: 1) King Ferdinand's imperfect "health" is both physical and political. A crisis both for the King as a man and for the man as a King has long been imminent (TIME, Jan. 11). 2) Despatches from Bucharest reported Queen Marie's "palace clique" to be holding its own with difficulty, since her departure, against the renewed onslaughts of the minority parties. Her Majesty is the political Generalissimo of the Crown. Having sped to Manhattan, she motored up the Hudson to Tuxedo, and rested there...
...newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans...