Word: popescu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandal that never withers is Rumania's hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...
There was an intense amount of internal and international noise over the scandal, but it subsided in the general political turnover in Rumania last fall. And everything, including the bribes, is just about where it was, except General Popescu, who, in a fit of conscience, shot himself fatally through the head...
Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
...with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters saying the accusations were intolerable, that he had taken no bribes, was dying poor. Then he put a bullet through...
Rumanians expect scandal, sometimes murder, never suicide. Popescu's act shocked the country and Premier Vaida-Voevod's Cabinet was suddenly very rocky. Rattled Army men began "exposing" one another...