Word: octavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
Died. Dr. Miron Cristea, 70, Patriarch of the Rumanian Greek Orthodox Church, Premier of Rumania since February 1938; of heart disease; at Cannes, France. Successor to Jew-baiter Octavian Goga as nominal head of King Carol II's Government, Premier Cristea issued Rumania's enlightened "Minorities Statute" (TIME...
Representing not much of anything, a Manhattan society called The Friends of The Duke of Windsor in America last week issued invitations to a forthcoming dinner. Printed on the inside of the invitation was a quotation from a leading Octavian, Author Compton Mackenzie (The Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle...
Only a few months ago, King Carol II picked a Premier, the late Octavian Goga, who was one of the most arrant reactionaries, Jew-baiters and oppressors of minority peoples in all Europe (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week the present Premier...
...Died. Octavian Goga, 57, onetime anti-Semitic Premier of Rumania; of a paralytic stroke, near Cluj, Transylvania. For the past year a dominant figure in Rumanian politics, he became Premier last December, was dismissed by King Carol in February (TIME, Jan. 10, et seq.), spent his last days in exile...