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...Rumanian Cheat. Somewhat less revolting than the Egyptian fraud was Rumania's election last week - for in Ru mania each party has its turn at cheating...
Vasile Murgulescu, 32, onetime secretary of the Rumanian Senate, was sentenced in Manhattan to serve from three to ten years in Sing Sing. He was convicted of forging signatures on travelers' checks stolen from a U. S. citizen in Paris. Vasile Murgulescu is also wanted in San Francisco on a Federal charge, has been convicted of forgery in Paris, Rome, was once deported from Vienna...
...popular mind, Queen Helen has stood for years as one of the few untainted factors in Rumanian public life. Her sickroom vigil loomed momentarily bigger than the election. With profound disquiet the nation learned that she was running a slight temperature, due probably to the effects of inoculation and exhaustion. Crown Prince Mihai's temperature went down to 99.7 He was better. Her Majesty appeared to repose confidence in only one other human being, an elderly English nannie who shared her vigil...
...Raphael, for the publication of a Rumanian Grammar and Chrestomathy; Professor George B. Weston, to aid in the preparation for publication of a two-volume collection of Italian Satirists of the Seventeenth Century: Dean A. F. Whittem, for consulting, in France and Spain, works of certain French and Spanish fabulists, or material concerning them; Assistant Dean G. K. Zipf. for the publication of results of investigation of Pekingese Chinese, and for further work in obtaining data for an article on Syntax and Semantic Change and a contemplated volume on the relativity of human speech...
Champagne was allegedly consumed in the funeral dining cars. For this and for all expenses not specifically ordered by herself Widow Bratianu last week stoutly refused to pay. Excitable Rumanian Treasury officials threw up their hands, told reporters: "We are greatly surprised at the attitude of Livia Bratianu! Possibly the King will intervene...