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...long time he is held up, awaiting a traveling-companion, in the fascinatingly dull little town of Saliste. To beguile the time he talks of Transylvanian history with the mayor. This worthy gives him what help he can, but has more immediate matters on his mind. "Round and round,'' says the mayor, "and round and round. Day follows day. It is so difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanderlustre | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Money Devil | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Royal Government of Hungary will withdraw from the League of Nations, next September, if the League Council persists in refusing to adjudicate the 6-year-old Transylvanian land dispute (TIME, Dec. 19) between Hungary and Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Threats | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Council took up once more the five-year-old Transylvanian land dispute between Rumania and Hungary. Just as some progress seemed about to be made, last week, Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu burst into tears, and threatened to withdraw if pressed to make concessions. Matter postponed to the 50th Council session next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Powers Flouted | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Opposition, like many other Oppositions, became rowdy, rowdier, most rowdy. Heated accusations (not specified) were hurled at the head of Premier Count Stephen Bethlen, Transylvanian industrial magnate. No effort of the Government and its supporters could stem the mighty, endless avalanche of abuse that slid off the asperous tongues of its enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Wobbling | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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