Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commentators recalled that the Prime Minister's pious wife has said that she sees in his rise to Power the inscrutable working of "Divine Providence."
Neither the President of the U. S. nor any Cabinet officer is privileged by custom to ask Congress for endorsement or condemnation of any course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would...
"If you propose to overthrow my Cabinet, mes amis," cried the Prime Minister, "do so now! A crisis today would have serious but reparable consequences. A crisis once the negotiations have begun would be a mortal blow to France!"
Pondering well these words the Chamber presently gave the Prime Minister a vote of confidence, 325 to 251, a majority of 74. Thus the Government of France need not fear to be knifed in the back by Parliament, during the Reparations negotiations, as was Thomas Woodrow Wilson when he sought...
As he lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German...