Word: argetoianu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system. But barges and railroad cars are scarce in Rumania, and, moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely had they passed the frontier before Rumania had changed Governments. Premier Constantin Argetoianu resigned, and King Carol appointed 47-year-old George Tata-rescu to head a new Government...
...great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties in an effort to get "national union" support for the Cabinet of Premier Dr. Constantin Argetoianu, formed after the assassination last month of Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu by Rumanian Nazis...
...Greece had already made such an announcement. Two days later Premier Muchanoff thought better, denied that he had "said anything concrete on the subject." Harried Albania set up not one but five separate commissions to think of ways of raising more money. Rumania's Finance Minister, Constantine Argetoianu, was in Paris, begging. Spectacled King Alexander of Jugoslavia was luckier. He went back from Paris with a $14,000,000 loan...