Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
Derevyanko started with lots of chips. Since almost all Japanese public men were tainted with militarism, it would not be difficult to strike at MacArthur by bringing charges against members of any government that might be formed. Premier Kijuro Shidehara was about to resign because he had received little support in the recent elections; the man who had received the most support was Ichiro Hatoyama, head of the Liberal Party, who was well-smeared with anti-democratic stain (TIME, April...
Cheng explained that Premier T. V. Soong, during his negotiations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the Sino-Soviet Treaty of last August, had asked that the Fushun Combine be excluded from joint ownership provisions; Stalin had agreed. What did Cheng intend to do about the Russians living in the Combine's Yamato Hotel and working in its main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians...
...heed, held out implacably for government by parties in an all-powerful Parliament. Their most incisive, ironic orator was tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who cried: "Perhaps some fear that the first party of France [i.e., the Communist, which has about 25% of the voters] may choose the premier...
...Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. For the time being, the Populists, despite the presence in their ranks of some extremist reactionary elements, moved warily; thousands of Greeks who had turned against the Left because of EAM terror last year might swing back if the Right disclosed a mailed fist. As Premier of a small coalition Cabinet (Right and Center) they chose Panayotis Poulitsas, an amiable nonpartisan...