Word: lei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enraged the professorial and student class, distinctly a factor in Rumanian politics, by announcing, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, that from Jan. 1, 1931 the pay of all officers will be increased 5,000 lei per month ($30)?subject to Parliamentary approval which His Majesty seemed cocksure of obtaining last week...
Stern, the court fined whilom Chief Tibacu 100,000 lei (about $500), clapped him into jail for ten years, sentenced his wife and aides to five years each...
...first carload of no million British-made bas-reliefs of eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania was being circulated in Bucharest last week. The portraits (see cut) are being struck by the British Royal Mint, 5 million on Rumanian 20-lei (12?) pieces and 60 million on 5-lei (3?) coins, all of a base metal which the governments concerned refuse to describe more fully than as a "new alloy...