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...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...
...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...