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...Home Secretary was able to indicate that the situation in Rumania was completely quiet, last week, and that the 200,000 Rumanian peasants who marched to Alba Julia, last fortnight, and adopted resolutions protesting the despotism of the Rumanian Government were believed to be dispersing to their homes, after abandoning their project of a great protest march to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. ¶ Were astounded and chagrined by the charge made of His Majesty's Government that the oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest...
Yesterday the Prince spent packing his playthings for some more pleasant intrigue in a different country where the parental authority would not be so very stern. He thought of America, but that was very far away and he wanted to be near his cherished Rumanian throne. France was not particularly friendly; neither was republican Germany: Soviet Russia was not at all to his taste. Some small country was more congenial, and he found the very one in Belgium...
...wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit the peasants a demonstration. So next day, preceded and followed by a detachment of Rumanian cavalrymen and shaded fitfully by esquadrilles of bombing planes, 5,000 peasants began a decorous parade from Alba Julia to Bucharest...
Anxiously watching the strange Rumanian drama of last week from Godstone, near London, King Mihai's ineffectual father, Prince Carol (eldest son of Dowager Queen Marie), who would be King at this moment had he not chosen to abdicate (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and live abroad with a titan-haired Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. Carol, who now aspires to regain powers which he too lightly cast away, said last week: "I didn't leave my country for love of Mme. Lupescu. It's all a lie to say so.† What man would renounce a throne because...
Alvin William Krech, 70, was for 20 years president, and since 1923 board chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., director of numerous other banking and railroad companies, banking colleague of Otto Hermann Kahn and Paul Drennan Cravath, holder of decorations from the French, Italian and Rumanian Governments for rehabilitation work after the War. Last week he died, of angina pectoris, suddenly at his Manhattan office, just two years to the day after he pried the first brick from the old Mills building on whose Broad Street site the Equitable's new 42-story building now stands...