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...again but this time the law was in effect. Lupta and Taranismul printed not a word. Careening down Bucharest's Buzetis Street he caught the wife of one Major Georgescu neatly on his mudguard, tumbled her in the gutter. In rage. Major Georgescu smashed the car's window with his riding crop, then suddenly recognizing the Prince, stopped, saluted. Flushed with anger, Prince Nicholas ordered the Major to three weeks' house arrest. Major Georgescu's commanding officer, General Vavrescu. further ordered him to apologize to Prince Nicholas in person...
...summer he played baseball in the yard and felt better for the exercise. Always generous, he gave away to charity what his prison-mates estimated at $25,000. This openhandedness was responsible for the unconfirmed rumor that he had occupied a special cell with chintz curtains at the window, easy chairs, cozy bed and mattress. Some Philadelphians interpreted his generosity as a bid for hospitality when...
...Treasury Mellon's plan for revising German payments to the U.S. for War claims and army occupation costs under the Young Plan, asked that it be approved. Another Hoover request to Congress: An additional $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board (see p. 14). ¶ From a window in his office in the State, War & Navy Building President Hoover briefly watched Communists demonstrating before the White House in the name of Unemployment (saw them dragged away by the police). Next day he issued a statement, said that unemployment was decreasing, business increasing...
...Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...
...Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen's dresser, for whose ability to arrange tastefully a shop-window-full of diadems on the royal person (see front cover) Her Majesty had such respect that she did not discharge the wretch...