Word: premier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French political situation at present is in many ways like that of last year in England, when Ramsay MacDonald and the Labor Party held places comparable to those in France, where Edouard Daladier has just been named Premier, according to C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History, and tutor in the Department of History, Government and Economics...
...Daladier's rapid rise from comparative obscurity to Premier is doubtless the result of his refusal to support Poincare in 1928. He is probably not committed to the capital levy, and as leader of the Radical-Socialist party he has gained the long sought opportunity of the Left to get back into power...
...good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash and then repays the loan by a tax on matches. As for the match-users, they get excellent matches and the price is fixed by an agreement between Herr Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make a large loan investment in order to eliminate competition, he has also succeeded in reducing competition...
...Canadian Premier $15,000; British Premier $25,000. *Population...
...path of a United States of Europe is the existence of a regularly centralized, modern state in continental Europe today," said W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor in the department of History, when asked to comment on the consolidation of the states of Europe as proposed by Premier Briand. "The plan may have a beautiful ideal, but it seems to me to be utterly impracticable. There are too many obstructions that must be ironed out before anything can be done...