Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The five commissioners stared fixedly at the Commoners. In unison they slowly raised their black tricorn hats three times in greeting. Then Lord Chancellor Sankey read the King's speech, a speech which everybody knows is not written by the King at all but by the Prime Minister, a...
The speech was as notable for what it did not say as for what it said. No actual date was given for the calling of another naval reductions conference. There was no mention of Prime Minister MacDonald's proposed visit to Washington. Government operation of the coal mines was...
The sensitive nature of onetime Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida could not brook such an irregularity. He was responsible for the Kellogg treaty in Japan. He felt that he was put in the position of presenting an unconstitutional treaty to his country. Piqued, he resigned from the Privy Council, paid...
The Genro is a political institution without Western precedent. Possessing no constitutional authority but politically active until 1922, it then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by...
The Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior...