Word: maniu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newly-elected Premier Maniu of Roumania, in taking America, the golden goose of Europe, as his model for the reorganization of his country, has the eyes of the world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments...
...home life and commences his cultivation of speakeasies, gun-men, petty grafters, ward politicians, and such evidences of a highly civilized federation that he can be said to have achieved the true American kultur. The one existing institution comparable to any in America has just been banished by Premier Maniu, and now, in strict pursuance of his policy of imitation, he must recall the governing body of aristocrats that was for so long Roumania's Tammany Hall. The world is eying Premier Maniu, America gratifiedly, and the rest with politely concealed but horrified misgivings. May he, in his innocence, discover...
...peasant-born Prime Minister of Rumania, Dr. Juliu Maniu, who has just ousted onetime Dictator Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 19), took characteristic action, last week, as follows...
...Bucharest, Capital of Rumania, the new Peasant-Prime Minister Juliu Maniu said: "We have abolished all censorship. We invite the Press to criticize our acts. We hope and expect that Rumanian editors will try to criticize as friends...
Even cynics sympathized with Peasant Juliu Maniu as he left the Royal Palace. More than a "tender but lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...