Word: budapests
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...Abdul Kadir, was also brilliant, and his radiance attracted more ladies than even a self-respecting Turk allowed in his harem. After his father was banished to a luxurious prison in what is now Greece, Abdul Kadir migrated to Budapest where women, wine and Tsigane music swelled his collection of unpaid bills. He married the Hungarian equivalent of a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, but eventually abandoned her and the small, red heir to which she had just given birth. A few days later the Prince walked into a Budapest court in answer to a summons. The police were amazed. Further investigations...
...smiling Sunday morning in Budapest, just after people were returning from early mass, news-venders did an unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge...
...London Stock Exchange, Hungarian and Austrian crowns* were quoted at par for the first time since the clatter of Armageddon first disturbed the world. In Manhattan, Dr. Paul Hollos, Budapest banker, spoke at New York University, said that demands for U. S. capital would continue for a decade. He painted a rosy view of Hungary's financial reconstruction, concluded by saying that bank deposits had increased tenfold during the past year as a sign of domestic and foreign confidence in the country...
...would be necessary. He spoke of prices, which once 21,900 points above the 1914 mark, had subsided to 18,900. He spoke of steady price decreases, accelerated later by commercial treaties with neighboring countries. (Hungary recently concluded a commercial treaty with Poland.) He mentioned that, when he left Budapest, prices there were higher by 10% than in Vienna...
...Hungary, archaeologists discovered peasants of the village O-szöny, near Budapest, feeding pigs in Roman sarcophagi troughs, hoarding gems and jewelry dug from their cottage foundations, which were placed on the original foundations of Brigetio, a Roman city of 40,000 inhabitants. Some children scrabbled up pre-Roman vessels of solid gold, dated 800 B. C. by the Hungarian National Museum...