Word: papanastasiou
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...necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against...
Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos forthwith occupied Athens. There was some spectacular firing but no bloodshed and no damage. The Provisional President was permitted to request ex-Premier Papanastasiou to form a Government, but as his party, the Radical Republicans of the Democratic Union, declined to support him, he early abandoned his Cabinetmaking attempt. A government was forthwith formed by General Pangalos, who became Premier and Minister of War with Admiral Hajikiriakos as Minister of Marine...
...from a self-imposed exile, became Premier (TIME, Jan. 21, 1924). A few days in power and he fell (TIME, Feb. 11, 1924) and in a month had again left the country to stew in its own juice (TIME, March 17, 1924). A Kafandaris Cabinet was succeeded by a Papanastasiou, by a Sofoulis, by a Michalakopoulis...
...walked Premier Papanastasiou (TIME, July 28) and in trotted Premier Sofoulis, ex-Governor of Macedonia, followed by five staunch supporters...