Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
...Canada's best-dressed women (TIME, Jan. 26) was out last week ringing doorbells, talking with housewives, speaking to Tory meetings. Fiorenza Drew, wife of Premier George Drew, had taken on the job of lining up votes for George in this week's provincial elections...
...best thing that ever happened to George." She has an easy grace and charm; her husband is reserved: his enemies call him haughty. In a recent 4,000-mile campaign swing through the Lakehead and northern Ontario Mrs. Drew made scores of speeches on the same platform with the Premier. "I just stand up and chat," says Fiorenza. "I don't get into the issues of the election. I let George do that." She was a big success. Said one of her listeners: "A lot of people, if they had their choice between George and Fiorenza, would pick Fiorenza...
...five years since Drew became Ontario's Premier, his wife has been knee-deep in politics. At the same time she is not too busy to keep an eye on her two children, Sandra, 8, and Edward, 10. During last fortnight's tour she called home every night to check on them, was constantly picking up little souvenirs to take them. "I feel as if I'm working 26 hours a day," she said. "But I like it, you know...
Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war-crime trials, noted happily that he was a much more popular author in Japan than ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, the No. 1 defendant. The published text of Tojo's defense affidavit had sold 5,000 copies, the Japanese version of Keenan's summation...