Word: premier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Sapp told how Premier Mussolini had lately said to him of the Italians: "'Mr. Sapp, what these people need is discipline...
...published in the last series of 47 Workshop dramas. At Yale she continued her study of dramatic technique with Professor Baker. "The Chisholm Trail" is her latest piece, and, in keeping with the Dramatic Club's tradition of sponsoring works hitherto unknown on the American stage, will have its premier showing in Cambridge
...Premier Hertzog, once a violent republican himself, counseled moderation to both parties and eventually succeeded in effecting a compromise acceptable to each side. Ever since the last Imperial Conference, which created George V King of the Union of South Africa, General Hertzog has held that the legitimate aspirations of the country and a free and independent unit in the Commonwealth had been met. But he was bitterly attacked by both sides in his stand on the flag issue...
Nevertheless U. S. citizens contributed many hundreds of thousands of francs toward the 15,000,000 francs wanted. Delegates representing them and delegates of other contributing countries last week signed a scroll commemorating their deeds. That scroll M. Edouard Herriot, onetime (1924-25, 1926) premier of France and now Minister of Public Instruction & Fine Arts in the cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincaré, carefully rolled up and meticulously placed inside the cornerstone...
...chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate...