Word: premier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Historians inevitably arrive at this conclusion after weighing every element in the balance, and after attaining a universal perspective of the situation. However, a careful investigation of the trend of history is hardly necessary, for during the past week, a significant illustration of the force of power has arisen. Premier Mussolini, in attacking the "intolerable interference" of Austria in the Upper Adige, or Italian Tyrol, is voicing the assurance of a nation which feels capable of enforcing its own policy and protecting its own boundaries and at the same time is on the point of sacrificing the principles of justice...
Within a few hours came the curt, scornful reply of Premier Count Bethlen, a martinet, a virtual dictator: "The Hungarian Government tonight received with surprise your telegram. . . . The public auction sale [of the demolished parts] is scheduled for tomorrow. . . . It is impossible to postpone the auction...
Soon His Majesty administered the oath required of a Jugoslav premier. It was high time that this be done. The country, premierless for more than a fortnight, was growing restive. While the politicians quarreled, conditions bordering upon famine had grown so acute in the Jugoslav districts of Herzegovina and Montenegro that the International Red Cross was reported to be starting famine relief measures which should certainly have been undertaken long ago by the Jugoslav Government...
Though neither of the Big Two has of itself a majority, Premier Baron Tanaka professed and was generally conceded the ability to obtain the few minority votes which he needs to carry on, according to the official returns. The great facts are two: 1) This was the first Japanese election under the new suffrage law which increased the number of the electorate from 3,000,000 to some 12,000,000; 2) Of this new electorate 81% went to the polls and returned only two predominating parties...
...life of the New York rubber broker. Brokers sold 20,277½ long tons in 8,111 contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...