Word: prefectly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George has visited the French Riviera for his health al most every winter; but this year, for the first time since his eclipse as Premier, he was officially welcomed and fêted near Saint Raphael by the local Prefect and representatives of the French Government. "I was astonished," said Mr. Lloyd George afterwards. "I tell you they'll be naming a street after me next...
...issue of TIME, Aug. 16, under heading, Hygienic, Moral, the following: "At the city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well pondered order last week: 'For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...Nice, Prefect of Police André Gueulechien gazed across his desk, pensively caressing his pointed beard. Towards him from the door, assisted by gendarmes, staggered a woman, gurgling unintelligible things out of a blood-slavered mouth. Prefect Gueulechien listened attentively. He recognized the woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write...
Students of politics were intrigued by a clause in the decree providing that each podesta shall be "advised" by a consulta (council), the members of which "will not be elected but appointed by the provincial prefect, in turn appointed by the State. The terms podesta and consulta are borrowed, of course, from the political vocabulary of the Middle Ages, when the small independent communities of Italy were ruled by a podesta who was advised by a consulta representing the workers' guilds. It is Premier Mussolini's announced intent that the new consultas shall similarly represent the Fascist "unions...
...city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well-pondered order last week: "For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...