Word: premier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
Ontarians voted, returned Premier Ferguson and the liquor stores in a Conservative landslide...
...There is no doubt," editorialized Santiago's La Nation, "that yesterday's criminal act has given President IbaÑez a new popularity in the public mind, similar to a great extent to that occasioned for the Italian Premier after the various unsuccessful attacks against...
...premier showing of the second film of a series illustrating the various processes of the arts will be given at the Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday afternoon, November 20, at 3 o'clock. This movie is one of a group being made for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and will soon be followed by others...
...Both Premier Daladier and Herriot, one of his ministers, are graduates of the Ecole Normal, which the French press jokingly calls the 'Republic of Professors.' Many of the French politicians have been graduated there, including Painleve and Leon Blum. But despite doubt and ridicule, the Radical-Socialist minister and his new cabinet have a splendid chance, and having waited so long for it to come, they will probably use it well...