Word: maniu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave utterance to these lines was, of course, the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Last week, she and her daughter-in-law, Princess Helen, mother of Baby King Mihai, jointly received in audience the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu - he who has just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash...
...steps at a time the new Prime Minister descended the palace stair, sped to begin work. By a penstroke he abolished the traditional Bratiano censorship of posts, telegraphs, telephones, press. With hearty handclasps he sent his colleagues off to their new Ministries. Then to eager correspondents Dr. Maniu said...
Speculation focused upon whether Prime Minister Maniu will be able to organize a sufficiently stable regime to obtain the vitally needed loan of which he so confidently spoke. That dicker, involving $250,000,000, was on the point of consummation by Vintila Bratiano, last fortnight, when he was forced to resign as Prime Minister...
...trace the obscure rise of Juliu Maniu is to turn back to the days when Rumanian Transylvania was ruled by His Apostolic Majesty, Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Among the least of those who sat in the Hungarian Parliament was Juliu Maniu...
Thus the new Prime Minister is a natural leader of those large and undigested "national minorities" which Rumania greedily gulped at the close of the War. Two years ago Dr. Maniu merged his Peasant Party with other factions to form the National Peasant Party. Last spring he staged a gigantic Peasant Congress at Alba Julia, from which hundreds and thousands of ragged folk marched upon Bucharest (TIME, March...