Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid of you, you rascal!" screamed the Premier of Prussia...
Soft Music. The hero of the Reichstag trial was ailing and growing old. On public occasions he rouged his cheeks to appear younger. Last April, he left his job as Premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia to "rest." There were the usual rumors of liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...
...easy. They were running under an untried leader, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who took over when the veteran Mackenzie King retired last year. The opposition Tory party had received vigorous new leadership from George Drew. Drew's strength in Ontario, where he had been three-time premier, and his alliance with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis threatened the Liberals' hold on the two biggest provinces...
Died. Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five times Radical Party Premier of turbulent Republican Spain;* and lifelong antimonarchist; in Madrid, where he returned under Franco amnesty...
Died. Themistocles Sophoulis, ninetyish, Premier of Greece since 1947; of a stroke; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...