Word: vintila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Minister Vintila Bratiano left his dead brother's bedchamber and hastened to present the Cabinet's resignation to the three Regents. They at once "commanded" him to assume the Premiership. Soon there was a new Premier Bratiano?with all Cabinet posts redistributed exactly as before...
Jangling telephones brought to Jon Bratiano's death bed, at 3 a. m., the three Regents* of Rumania, also Dowager Queen Marie, Princess Helene (mother of 6-year-old King Michael), and all the Cabinet Ministers, headed by the Premier's brother, Vintila Bratiano...
...Premier Vintila Bratiano, 60, has his late brother's massive, commanding stature, and merely lacks in face and feature a trifle of Jon's finely chiseled strength. The nose has not so elegantly satyrlike a tip. The beard and mustache are a shade darker grey and notably less neatly trimmed than were those of Jon. Finally Vintila's eyes seem contented within the shelter of his heavy brows. The eyes of Jon twinkled or darted lightnings...
...Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano said: "There is no chance of Carol returning. The death of my lamented brother spelled the end of the Carolist agitation...
Despite the "perfect calm" prevailing in Rumania, Premier Vintila Bratiano found it necessary to hold one more conference with party leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...