Word: lei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will pay part of this, not all!" cried Mme Vintila Bratianu, flashing eyed, when a representative of Rumania's National Peasant Party Cabinet presented her last week with a bill for 2,000,000 lei covering her late, great husband's State Funeral (TIME...
...million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap- consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest...
According to Widow Bratianu, however, the Peasant Party (bitter political foes of her husband whom they ousted from the Prime Ministry) cleverly "entrapped" her into the 2,000,000 lei expense. When her husband died the Cabinet offered to carry him to the grave as a charge on the national budget. This "charity" Mme Bratianu indignantly refused, replied to the Cabinet: "I will pay for my husband's funeral." Delighted, the peasant politicians ordered the special trains, came to the funeral of their late enemy as to a picnic...
...Vintila Bratianu in common with his satellites," cried Professor Madgearu, "used to requisition caviar from the state fisheries in huge quantities! When bills were presented they were seldom or never paid. At the time of his death Vintila Bratianu owed the Rumanian State Fisheries for caviar 14,000 lei...
...peasant, and Professor Madgearu is of the Peasant Party, 14,000 lei is a lot of money...