Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the first announced competition to dignified (66) Louis St. Laurent, Minister of External Affairs, who most Canadians had long assumed would be the new Premier. Now they are not sure...
Articulate Man. Jimmy Gardiner is as practical as politicians come. In provincial and federal politics for over 30 years, he has never lost an election. Twice Premier of Saskatchewan, he still holds a firm grip on the provincial Liberal Party (although the socialist CCF rules his province). As Minister of Agriculture, he has played for the farmer vote, sponsored the British food contracts with their long-term price guarantees. He sometimes dictates 60 letters a day, most of them four-page crunchers well larded with facts. A staunch United Churchman, who neither smokes nor drinks, he makes a speech...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently named as Premier of the Chinese Republic...
...Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak resigned recently, then agreed to withdraw his resignation when his compromise was adopted: 1. Calling in all bank notes larger than 100 francs...
...Independence came to 15 million former British subjects here in January. 69. This "bridge" between East and West fell, under Communist' pressure, in March. 70. On this island, a New York-born Premier lost his job after 16 years. 71. Here, after a 50-year reign, a sovereign gives up the throne...