Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring only such small objects along as they could carry in their hands and pockets...
Return. But the Bratianus were slipping. Post-War land reforms gave the peasants thousands of acres. After Versailles, democracy was on the wax in Europe and, notwithstanding Rumania's notorious balloting methods, a peasant leader named Juliu Maniu eventually won the premiership in 1929. When his reforms were further blocked by the Bratianu court clique, he conceived a plan to dethrone Mihai, crown Carol and get rid of Dowager Queen Marie and Prince Stirbey for good...
Meantime, Rumania grew up with its King. The peasants got their land, a prosperous and not too honest business class arose, new schools began to turn out young white-collar workers and these beat a path to get on the bureaucratic payroll of a vast collection of big and little political bosses. Then world depression began to crack down on easy money and easy virtue-then came Hitler...
...nationalize the oil industry completely within the next six years. If the plan is endorsed, all petroleum holdings will be seized, and compensation paid only "in the event that it should be absolutely indispensable," and only if it is proved that the original concession was not fraudulently obtained. Land expropriation will also be continued as vigorously as possible...
...injury-riddled Harvard football squad will be waiting in the trenches this afternoon to match its defensive warfare strength against an Army attack which promises to be dangerous both on land and in the air. The bulky Crimson line should be able to prevent any sustained ground advances led by powerful Cadet Art Frontczak, but the aerial bombardment instigated by Johnny Hatch and Jere Maupin will be severe...