Word: transylvania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lumber and cigarette paper? Yes. But good music is about the last thing travelers on U.S. Highway 64 would expect to find in the Blue Ridge town of Brevard, N.C. (pop. 3,000). Last week, nonetheless, with its Transylvania Music Camp in full swing for a fifth consecutive season, Brevard was momentarily the music capital of the South...
From educators, Taylor got even less support. The University of Houston snapped: "Not in favor." Said the University of Cincinnati: "Neither feasible nor desirable." Said the University of Chicago: "We got out of college football in 1939 and have no intention of returning." Kentucky's Transylvania College tartly replied: '"These are times when such boldness needs to be directed toward the harder, less spectacular task of educating, not entertaining, people...
Returns most of Transylvania to Rumania; small, strategic Danubian bridgehead to Czechoslovakia...
...Regains Transylvania from Hungary but loses Bessarabia to Russia, Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria...
...there were the three real leaders of the Rumanian Communist Party, all able and none of them native Rumanians. The three: Emil Bodnzras (real name Bodnarenko), a Ukrainian from Bessarabia; Laszlo Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania; and Ana Pauker, a German-Jewish Communist whose husband was formerly an official of Amtorg (Russian-American Trading Co.) in Manhattan. The brains of Rumania's Communist Party, Comrade Pauker now lives handsomely in her Bucharest villa...