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Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
...Ileana's father was not the late King Ferdinand of Rumania but is Prince Barbu Stirby. The wide currency of this belief in the Balkans was a decisive factor in thwarting efforts by Queen Marie of Rumania to arrange a marriage between Princess Ileana (legitimate under Rumanian law) and Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...hours before Tsar Boris was to enter Italy incognito the 50,000 drachma bet seemed as good as won. Suddenly however Cavalier General Ivan Wolkoff left the amorous embers he had been poking up at Rome, rushed to meet and stop Tsar Boris at Vienna. Next day it was announced that a painful ear was the sole reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit...
...last slim chance that the bet could be won seemed to loom when Tsar Boris went officially to Rome (TIME, Jan. 13) to attend the wedding of Belgian Roman Catholic Princess Marie José to the heir of Italy. An audience was granted to His Majesty by Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round...
...biggest U. S. paperboard makers traveled secretly to the home of George Gair, 57, president and general manager of Robert Gair Co., now dominant in the folding-box field. There they discussed means of saving the industry from the effects of overproduction and price-slashing, talked about choosing some Tsar to rule them. Generally favored for this position was Secretary of Labor James John Davis who has studied conditions in the industry and made suggestions that pleased the manufacturers. While to date little has come from this meeting, last week a deal took place which was widely looked upon...