Word: transylvania
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...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...
WHEN Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, new governor of Kentucky, registered at Transylvania College (Lexington, Ky.(, he had, he says, "a new dollar bill, a red sweater, and a smil." He added to this combination athletic skill, its resulting physical buoyancy, plus ability to play jazz on the piano. On several years to coach basketball, "Happy" returned to Transylvania for an A.B. in cost. The University of Kentucky made hima lawyer. Until 1927 he coached freshman football at Central College while he attended to law cases brought to him. He had been doing chores of all sorts since high school when...
...Author. A Hungarian of Transylvania (now Rumania). Aladar Kuncz had small reputation in his own country, was unknown outside. But his friends knew he was an essayist, biographer, a knowledgeable connoisseur of literature. In poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...
...Hungary, which has never admitted Rumania's right to Transylvania, indignation at this sting from Hornet Barthou grew so intense that the Hungarian Government had to assign troops to guard his train as it crossed Hungary. Before leaving Rumania, which he lately induced to recognize Soviet Russia (TIME, June 18), M. Barthou was presented with the first Rumanian passport valid for travel among Bolsheviks, a flattering passport made out to "Louis Barthou, Rumanian citizen" in recognition of honorary citizenship just voted him by the Chamber of Deputies. According to Citizen Barthou of France and Rumania, his two countries...