Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graft-ridden and Crown-trodden, the people of Rumania lost last week their great champion against the small, oligarchic moneyed class; Professor Iuliu Maniu, the first peasant-born Prime Minister which Rumania ever...
...could have prevented it!" In Bucharest last week there were supposed to be three "real reasons" for the peasant Prime Minister's evasive resignation: 1) a split in his own Peasant Party between peasant factions of the "Old Kingdom" and those of such great new provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents...
...Cabinet. After consulting party leaders King Carol, eager to foster the creation of a "Grand Coalition Cabinet" in which the old Crown parties would be represented, found this impossible, was obliged to put up with another Peasant Party Cabinet?this party being now overwhelmingly the largest. Finally His Majesty named as Prime Minister Professor George Mironescu, the new Cabinet lining up thus...
...found ways to live and ways to be happy. None of these people is the black-&-white type that propaganda likes: all are individual, characteristic, human. Some of them are Dostoievskian, unforgettable: Zavalishin, crafty workman turned executioner, who shoots down hundreds but cannot stick a pig; Grigory, stout old peasant to whom it never occurs to be unfaithful; Edward Lvovitch, who puts his heartbreak into music but cannot pronounce...
...Balintawac outside Manila assembled last week 2,000 excited Filipino peasants to hear fiery speeches in Tagalog flaying Nicholas Roosevelt, appointed last month, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. Ever since his appointment Philippine politicos have raised a great hubbub against him because, in 1926 while working for the New York Times, he wrote a book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book...