Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Labor's newspaper, the London Daily Herald, reported Rumania's smooth-cheeked Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu forgot his umbrella while calling on the Greek Patriarch at Istanbul, hastily sent a man back to fetch it, exclaimed in consternation: "What is a diplomat without his umbrella...
President Charles E. Brinley, who now fills the shoes of genial Patriarch Samuel Vauclain as head of Baldwin's management, may get Baldwin's break-even point down to its old $30,000,000 level (it was in the red last year on total business of $33,000,000). If he does, U. S. Naval expansion should soon increase Baldwin's non-locomotive business enough to put the company in the black. If Baldwin then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government...
Last year Rumania's State church, the Greek Orthodox, had temporal power with a vengeance: its Patriarch Miron Cristea was King Carol's puppet Premier. Patriarch Cristea did not resist an impulse to crack down on Protestant sects. His device was simple. He had his Minister of Cults decree that no congregation could hold public services unless at least 100 heads of families belonged...
...Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
Died. Dr. Miron Cristea, 70, Patriarch of the Rumanian Greek Orthodox Church, Premier of Rumania since February 1938; of heart disease; at Cannes, France. Successor to Jew-baiter Octavian Goga as nominal head of King Carol II's Government, Premier Cristea issued Rumania's enlightened "Minorities Statute" (TIME...