Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day in office, Italy's new Premier, Ferruccio (Common Man) Parri (TIME, July 2) was bothered by a clerk who kept .addressing him with the customary title of Eccellenza-Your Excellency. When asked how he should be addressed, the Premier answered: "As I happen to be a professor, why not just address me as Professor Parri?" Two days later the Council of Ministers, led by Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, voted unanimously to abolish the title of Eccellenza...
Whether Italy's new Common Man Premier could cope with conditions for which uncommon talents were needed remained to be seen...
...bell rang. In a great hall of the Kremlin the twelfth session of the Supreme Soviet formally opened. Premier Joseph Stalin, wearing a fawn-colored Red Army jacket and his Marshal's diamond, sat in the last row of benches. The hall was thick with Red Army...
...commentator declared it highly possible that the Emperor would invoke his supreme authority in the crisis. His powers would override all existing laws and exceed even the sweeping powers granted Premier Suzuki's Cabinet by the Imperial Diet (Parliament) last fortnight...
...Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent his regrets: recently he had fallen asleep during an investiture at Government House...