Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bucharest's royal fop played the King more boldly than British George V (who despises him) would ever dare to do. In brief the Cabinet of peasant-born Premier Juliu Maniu "advised" His Majesty to dismiss from their jobs two of his special favorites, Col. Marinescu, Chief of Bucharest Police, and General Dumitrescu, Chief of Rumania's Gendarmerie. Instead of taking his Cabinet's advice, as George V would be bound to do, Carol II took his stand on Rumania's old-fashioned Constitution which gives the King broad powers, defied Premier Maniu...
...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
...Year's Day the official Soviet newsorgan, Izvestia, confidently predicted that J. Stalin's new decrees will break the peasant's strike, speed the wheels of industry. Front-paging a nearly lifesize sketch of the Dictator whose left arm extended clear across the bottom of the page, Izvestia captioned and clarioned: AHEAD, COMRADES, TO NEW VICTORIES...
Whether belief in the Peasant of Konnersreuth should be merely belief in her mystical experiences, or whether it should include her extraordinary five-year fast was a question for lively discussion last week in the Roman Catholic press of Germany...
...heart. On Good Friday stigmata appeared on her feet and hands, later on her head. Doctors were baffled. Then on every Friday, from morning until midafternoon, Therese Neumann re-enacted the Passion of Jesus Christ, bleeding profusely, babbling in aramaic, Hebrew and Latin as well as her own peasant dialect...