Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Benito, Alexandre Constantinescu, Rumanian Minister of Agriculture, declared that Italy and Rumania must cooperate. The usual alluring remarks were made about Italian development of the riches of Rumania and the hopes for an Italo- Rumanian Treaty. In conclusion, Constantinescu said that the Rumanian monarchs, "King Marie and Queen Ferdinand," would visit Italy in the near future...
...former visit was postponed (TIME, Apr. 7), following Benito's "insult" to Marie and Ferdinand by objecting to Rumania's attempt to repudiate all foreign commercial debts...
...democratic sympathies and her natural abilities as stateswoman and businesswoman. With the coming of War, she shed her frivolous exterior, became a nurse and truly endeared herself to Rumanians who to this day call her "our Angel Queen" as they had called her "Angel without wings" when she married Ferdinand. She once said: "We hope that during our reign Rumania may grow in greatness and happiness. To consecrate all my efforts to the alleviation of misery and pain is the mission to which, as with all other great-hearted women of the past, I will devote myself...
...daughters into Balkan royal families. She herself says, however, that "my daughters married off themselves." No doubt at all that she married off her son, Carol, to Princess Marie of Yugo-Slavia. But she is a real power, abroad and at home, so much so that King Ferdinand has been described as a cipher, which is partly true. She is credited with forcing Rumania into the War on the winning side, she often concludes much State business over the heads of her husband's Ministers which makes her most unpopular with them. She holds sway in a Court which...
Maestro Fritz Busch, General Director of the Dresden Opera House, led the orchestra, which was said to have "glowed like a colorful piece of tapestry." Though the bulk of the audience was German middleclass, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and General Ludendorff glittered in the Wagner box. There, too, were Hugh Walpole, English author, and Count Albert Apponyi, towering Hungarian. Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, other masterpieces followed...