Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The new Sultan of Johore is 64-year-old Ismail, whose mother was one of Sir Ibrahim's original four Malay wives. But Ismail can rule for only a few weeks in the semi-autocratic fashion of his dead father. Next month Johore will elect an Executive Council headed...
Frondizi's only dependable ally is the armed forces, and he takes care to cultivate them. Lieut. General Héctor Solanas Pacheco, the War Minister, operates as the army's man in the Cabinet, and is rated as its most important member. Frondizi says he needs two...
Harmony was Raphael's blessing, both in himself and in his art. The golden boy at the Vatican while still in his 20s, he was loved even by the older painters he displaced and adored by those who came after. Freeing of St. Peter from Prison, completed for Leo...
His enemies figured out other ways to attack him. Wholesalers who had previously helped him asked him to take his business elsewhere. Said one: "I like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders...
Died. Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to...