Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Ferenc Nagy and his fellow Cabinet members had paid their return trip from New York to London in Hungarian currency, it would have cost them 14,250,000,000,000,000 pengös apiece.*In Hungary's abysmal inflation- the worst in modern history-one U.S. dollar last week bought 38 trillion pengös. Bookkeepers used a new word: "Mil-pengö" (one million pengös), because their figures no longer fitted the ledgers...
...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
Romans crowded the narrow streets near Monte Citorio palace, waiting for the republic to be proclaimed. In the Hall of the She-Wolf sat the highest court's 13 justices, Premier de Gasperi and his cabinet, the chiefs of the armed forces and other notables, including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people...
...Hungary's Premier] said . . . he favored . . . something Russia has consistently opposed...
Provincial Premier Thomas Douglas believes that CCF needs four years to round out its program. At the halfway mark its program looked more than halfway impressive. Saskatchewan's publicly owned industrial empire already comprises eleven Crown corporations: printing and brick plants, a woolen mill, box factory...