Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Of course all this is just Irish tosh, but the Queen-Empress and her advisers have apparently thought it unwise to overrule President Cosgrave openly. They were faced with a nasty dilemma when occasion arose for the Crown Council to accredit Mr. Michael MacWhite as Irish Free State Minister to...
Henry Mond and Jenny Lee. Britain's most potent industrialist, Lord Melchett, saw his son, the Hon. Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news...
Unemployment. In electioneering on the major issue of unemployment, the Labor Leader, James Ramsay MacDonald, is promising nowadays into many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living...
Sped six years. The new Prime Minister was that savage atheist M. Georges Clemenceau, well called "The Tiger." One day Catholic Foch was bidden to luncheon by Atheist Clemenceau. They merely chatted until the General reached the point of raising and sipping his demitasse, when The Tiger suddenly flashed, "You...
Equally frigid and correct are the relations of "Tiger" Clemenceau with the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine," M. Raymond Poincaré−now Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each...