Word: bratianos
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...situation is that U. S. concerns have upward of $150,000,000 invested in Rumania of which $70,000,000 alone represents the investments of the Standard Oil Co. The Bratiano brothers (Jon Bratiano, Premier; Vintila Bratiano, Minister of Finance) piloted through the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies a bill, known as the Mineral Rights Bill, which makes it obligatory for Rumanians to hold 60% of stock in all industrial enterprises, and which provides for State confiscation in the event of foreigners failing to comply with...
...political ramifications in Rumania, consequent upon this proposed law, are indeed manifold. The Bratiano brothers are supported by the Liberal Party, which has an overwhelming majority in the Senate and Chamber. Most of the Government Opposition disapproves of the bill, and supporting the Opposition is the Catholic Hohenzollern, King Ferdinand and his beautiful consort, Queen Marie. The issue is, therefore, between the King and his Government. The former has so far declined to sign on the dotted line and the bill cannot become law without his signature; neither can the Government force the King to sign, because he holds...
...neither one nor the other of these plans did they succeed and, after being made to feel by both France and Britain that they had outstayed their welcome, they were forced to return empty-handed to Bucharest. The Bratiano brothers stuck another feather in their caps by having the Mineral Rights Bill passed by both Houses of Parliament...
...Bratiano, paunchy Rumanian Premier, Alexander Constantinesco, Minister of Finance, and M. Atnonescu, Minister of Justice, left Bucharest for Brûsa near Constantinople to negotiate with the Turks a military alliance against Russia. The parley came to an abrupt end, however, Russian influences having forced Turkey to decline a Rumanian alliance...
...Jewish banker unmercifully until he was rescued by M. Titulesco, Rumanian minister to London. The incident inaugurated an anti-Semitic reign of terror that lasted in Bucharest until several regiments of troops had been called out to get the situation in hand. The outbreak was openly encouraged by the Bratiano Cabinet, following the opening of the trial of six students at the Bucharest University on the charge of attempting to muder M. Rosenthal, prominent Hebrew editor, and of plotting to kill Aristide Blank, his father, the editors of all the Jewish newspapers and several Cabinet Ministers suspected of having "sold...