Word: vaida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain another onetime Peasant Premier, M. Vaida-Voevod, pleaded that Mme Lupescu is not the political trouble-maker she is universally supposed to be. "During my premiership she caused no trouble and I obtained the King's promise to send her away," M. Vaida-Voevod illogically explained. "After her passport and a supply of money had been made ready the King changed his mind...
...girls in the public schools, severely rebuking any whom he caught wearing shirtwaists too snugly revealing or not perfectly opaque. Disgusted with the King and his favorites, Peasant Leader Dr. Maniu went into opposition three years ago and resigned as head of the Party in favor of M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod whom Carol induced to act as Premier (TIME, Jan. 23) in his tenth "Cabinet of Favorites." It was Premier Vaida-Voevod who resigned last week, bitterly declaring "The King is impossible!" Resigning also as Leader of the National Peasant Party, M. Vaida-Voevod cried: "I made a great mistake...
Last month Peasant Party Leader Nicholas Lupu charged that Skoda's agent, one Bruno Seltzski, had gotten the contract by lathering Rumanian Army officers and politicians with bribes. He charged too that Skoda had stirred up the whole war scare. As bribees he named Premier Alexander Vaida-Voevod's son and a nephew of the Finance Minister. This was still just Rumanian talk. Police had already searched Bruno Seltzski's house on the grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned...
Rumanians expect scandal, sometimes murder, never suicide. Popescu's act shocked the country and Premier Vaida-Voevod's Cabinet was suddenly very rocky. Rattled Army men began "exposing" one another...
Politically, Premier Vaida-Voevod of Rumania is no friend of M. Titulescu. "I studied medicine in my youth at Vienna," he admitted diffidently. "I never practiced. Still, do you want me to see what...