Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...
...Wong Wen-hao once wrote a book called Earthquake Regions of China. Last week he needed all his seismographic skill, for he was named Premier of the Chinese Republic-a vast earthquake region crumbling under the triple temblors of civil war, inflation and mass discontent...
...Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided on Dr. Wong when his first two choices refused. Stocky Chang Chun, the Gimo's sworn brother and old comrade in arms, had been Premier during the military and economic disasters of the past year. Complaining of chronic bronchitis, chronic fatigue and chronic criticism, Chang said he had had enough. When the Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following...
...Coat. The following day the job went to Wong. Nanking was startled. But, after chewing over the record of tiny, chain-smoking Geologist Wong, Chinese nodded their heads. The new Premier was transcendentally honest-in his first 20 years of public service he had never even owjied a fur coat. When, finally, he had bought a sheepskin one (with cat's-fur collar), he had kept it only two days, then given it to his father. And he was an able administrator...