Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...shall guarantee every citizen full political liberty and establish complete liberty of the press. We shall discuss stabilization of the currency and negotiate a foreign loan. We shall revise the present obnoxious anti-foreign mining law passed by [the late] Prime Minister Jon Bratiano in 1924, as well as other laws which have made Rumania a most unpopular country abroad. We shall abolish restrictions on foreign capital, which henceforth shall have the same opportunities as local capital...
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...
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...
Entered and sat the Empress.* The "People of Japan," personified by the solitary figure of Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, paced to the middle of the court yard, bowed low to the Son of Heaven, and awaited the Divine Word...