Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dynamic Prime Minister Venizelos called a cabinet meeting last week to get the business over with as soon as possible. He suggested that Alexander Zaimis, onetime Prime Minister, now President of the Senate, loyal Venizelos supporter, be chosen to fill the breach...
Attacked on three fronts, the Nationalist Government of slender President Chiang Kai-shek teetered perilously on catastrophe's brink last week, then swung back to safety. Chief stabilizer was a high and bloody victory over the rebellious "Ironsides" divisions of General Chang Fa-K'uei in his attempt to capture Canton...
...Last week's victory left President Chiang as firmly established as he had been at any time in the past year. Rebel generals, severely practical, talked of suspending hostilities until March and warmer weather...
Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande...
Presumably more bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55 per ton. On the other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return...