Word: vintila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will pay part of this, not all!" cried Mme Vintila Bratianu, flashing eyed, when a representative of Rumania's National Peasant Party Cabinet presented her last week with a bill for 2,000,000 lei covering her late, great husband's State Funeral (TIME...
...mighty dead : Vintila Bratianu, last of the Bratianu dynasty of prime ministers, who died recently of a paralytic stroke (TIME...
...Vintila Bratianu in common with his satellites," cried Professor Madgearu, "used to requisition caviar from the state fisheries in huge quantities! When bills were presented they were seldom or never paid. At the time of his death Vintila Bratianu owed the Rumanian State Fisheries for caviar...
...Vintila's Funeral. Carol's nerves probably stood very well the strain of knowing last week that apoplexy had just struck and killed his strongest foe: Vintila Bratianu. The House of Hohenzollern, imported from Germany, was placed on the throne of Rumania by the native House of Bratianu. A dynasty of titanic Bratianu Prime Ministers ruled the land until Ion Bratianu's death (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). His brother, Vintila, every inch a Bratianu in height, broad frame and commanding mien, had not the necessary political dexterity to rule. Though Vintila became Prime Minister, the great Dynasty...
...Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest...