Word: lupescu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king's palace and kill red-haired Magda Lupescu, the Jewess whose company Carol cannot long do without, whose power over Carol the Army mortally hates and fears...
...henchmen were Rumania's Fascist, Jew-hating Iron Guard. Forty of them had been on trial for the murder of Premier Ion G. Duca last December, had been acquitted. Col. Pricup noted that fact with interest. Carol had not rewarded him nearly enough since 1930. Lupescu intrigued against him. Two months ago he joined the Iron Guard and began organizing the boys...
...thoroughness that tripped him up. He found supporters in nearly every garrison in Rumania. Emboldened, one of his men invited the Minister of Commerce in Premier Tatarescu's Cabinet to join. To clear his conscience, the colonel called on the King to remonstrate with him about Lupescu, turned a little threatening. He was thrown out. Last fortnight he put through an order to Sergeant Major Charles Savinau for a case of hand grenades. The sergeant major told his colonel that he thought the grenades were wanted for no good end; the colonel called in the police. Savinau delivered...
...regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs for six hours. The favorite substitute story was that the officers had intended to kill only Mile Lupescu, because of her "eternal intriguing...
Nevertheless, King Carol last week drew a ring of loyal troops around his palace. Queen Mother Marie asked him, please, to get rid of Lupescu and remarry his divorced wife Helen. The Cabinet formally asked him to send Lupescu away. Lupescu herself, badly frightened, offered to leave Rumania, if that was all his enemies wanted. But Carol assured her confidently that things were not so bad as that. On that one point he was every inch a king: he decreed that indispensable Mile Lupescu must...