Word: premier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franco-U.S. tariff dispute (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) came to a definite if temporary head last week when Premier Raymond Poincare, functioning as Minister of Finance, caused a note to be written to Washington expressing France's willingness to revert to the status quo ante for U. S. imports pending the negotiation of a new commercial treaty...
...Premier then distributed $100,000 in prizes for the best results in growing wheat. Farmers and humble peasants, abashed but proud, marched on to a raised platform and there were kissed on both cheeks by Il Duce amid the plaudits of the populace...
...luncheon given by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan, Senator Guglielmo Marconi made the following points regarding Signor Mussolini: "The Government is carried in strong hands. The fortunes of the State are guided by enlightened minds and the country, as a whole, has full faith in Premier Mussolini's energetic policy. He is willing to make great sacrifices for the good of Italy's economic position in the world. There is no false pride in saying that Italians are proud and gratified at the results which have been noted and praised by economists in all parts of the world...
...perfect setting of perfect order, perfect weather, perfect enthusiasm, not top boisterous, nott too restrained, King Alfonso XIII, accompanied by his master, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, opened the new consultative National Assembly* (TIME, Sept. 26) in the Palace of the Cortes (Parliament), Madrid...
Perhaps Poland may now look forward to new Fascist innovations, for. the two dictators are sure to discuss the relative merits of dictatorship, etc. It is recalled that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary returned from Rome early in the year to promise the startled and unhappy Hungarians a few Fascist reforms, so enamored was he of Signor Mussolini's personality and government...