Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ That the Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hangs in fact by a thread, and may fall after the Christmas recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came...
Not in the least annoyed at being called "L'Améericain" is Prime Minister André Tardieu of France. He glories in his crisp nickname, exploits it cleverly. Last week there were rumblings against his Cabinet in the Chamber of Deputies, irate complaints about his brusque methods. Instead...
Pacified and intrigued by such unanswerable "American arguments," the Deputies next day gave the Tardieu Government a vote of confidence, 331 to 167. Paradoxically, Tardieu the pseudo-American proclaimed later in the week a policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M...
In Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange...