Marinescu

Just as automaker Henry Ford paid good wages to his factory workers at the turn of the last century, so they could afford to buy his cars, businesses today need people to have enough money to buy their goods and services, Marinescu said in an interview.

When the Ford government on the $150-million experiment in July, claiming jobs — not cash handouts — are the answer, Marinescu was “deeply upset” and determined to change the narrative.

Frame from one of Marinescu's science films (1899).

This led an insulted Carol to call on one of the members of his camarilla, the Bucharest police prefect Gavrilă Marinescu, who sent the police out to break up the Iron Guard rally with much violence.