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Word: ministere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel's Thoughts | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

There were not enough chairs so some of the Cabinet sat on camp stools. They had met in the plain, business-like office of Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, quiet; vigorous James Henry Scullin (TIME, Nov. 5). After a long, tense session last week they jolted all Australia by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Compulsion Suspended | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

In area Australia is almost exactly the size of the United States. Her entire population is a little less than that of New York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Compulsion Suspended | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

"The Crown Prince." At last the President of the Republic saw his way clear to call a would-be prime minister from the right. The numerically stronger but disorganized left had twice failed. It was time to summon the man whom former Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré? greatest statesman of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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