Word: transylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry, played football, basketball and baseball (captain), charmed the campus by his grin and his singing...
Died. Octavian Goga, 57, onetime anti-Semitic Premier of Rumania; of a paralytic stroke, near Cluj, Transylvania. For the past year a dominant figure in Rumanian politics, he became Premier last December, was dismissed by King Carol in February (TIME, Jan. 10, et seq.), spent his last days in exile...
Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol...
...Foreign representatives in the procession through London. In civilian clothes among them is a member of the Rumanian order of Mihai Viteazul, the equivalent to the British V. C., representing Transylvania...
...London paper to print these facts was the Communist Daily Worker. Since picture editors of other London dailies could not spread before their loyal public the panoply of marching kings without also showing Masseur Stoebs, they got over the difficulty with captions identifying him variously as "a representative of Transylvania" and "a representative of Armenia." Unwilling to take refuge in such a downright lie, one editor merely captioned: "Picturesque uniforms worn by some of the suites of the foreign royalties...