Word: presan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the vote was finally taken docile peasants rolled up an overwhelming total of 455 ballots out of 486 for Rooster Saratzeanu. Only nine representatives voted for Prince Carol. The remaining 22 ballots went to a popular Army corps commander, General Presan. The 39 members of the Liberal party, die-hard partisans of Queen Marie, abstained from voting entirely, announced themselves "scandalized" at the Peasant Prime Minister's last minute whip-cracking for a nonentity. Reporters and photographers found him totally ignorant of what had been passing in Parliament, astounded by the news...
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