Word: popescu
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...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...