Word: jon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jon 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...
...years ago, Jon Bratiano,, bearded, sly, adipose, became Prime Minister of Rumania. His Government repudiated many private contracts. with French, English, Italian, American, Belgian concerns. Bratiano calmly deducted 40% of the money due on these contracts, and offered the balance in 4% bonds, payable in 40 years. Some creditors accepted, but most (including the Italian concerns and the American Baldwin Locomotive Works, whose unpaid balance was $2,500,000) refused...
Last week Bucharest was in a frenzy over the rebuff. Paunchy Prime Minister Bratiano had informed the monarchs that they could not got to Rome under Mussolini's humiliating conditions. In the Rumanian Parliament, Foreign Minister Jon Duca, inveighed as follows: "We did not expect that the visit of the royal family, intended to strengthen the relations between the two countries, would be associated with dirty financial interests." Loud cheers...
Representatives of the Little Entente* (Dr. Benes, Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia; M. Jon Duca, Foreign Minister of Rumania...
...Jon Bratiano (of the People's Party) took the portfolios of Prime Minister and Minister of War in the cabinet which he formed in January of last year. It was this cabinet which was responsible for the adoption of Rumania's new constitution...