Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 18 days after Premier Stalin made his not-yet-fulfilled election promise to abolish rationing and lower food prices, Moscow announced price slashes as high as 60% in foodstuffs. The cuts applied only to the commercial gastronomes, where groceries are sold (at high mark ups) to supplement standard 'rations. Bread and cigarets fell 50%, sugar 33%, coffee 40%, meat 20%, vodka and wines...
...before midnight on March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...
Part In, Part Out. A day before the deadline, Moscow Radio baldly broadcast that Premier Gavam had been "notified" of the Soviet decision to begin withdrawing its troops on March 2 from districts "where the situation is relatively more quiet" in eastern Iran. In other areas the Red Army would stay "until the situation has been elucidated...
...Ottawa's Citizen noted that "four individuals . . . with Russian-sounding names" had registered at an Ottawa hotel. Officialdom had an attack of jitters too. Trumpeted Ontario's Premier George Drew: ". . . The time has not come when Canada is going to accept as its national emblem the hammer & sickle...
...Premier Léon Blum, who rooms in Marie de Medici's Palace of the Luxemburg and pays rent in proportion to the amount of furniture he uses, attended to a personal matter before he departed for the U.S. to ask a $2,500,000,000 loan. He asked the French Government, please, to take away some of the furniture...