Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Schuman's slim majority in the Assembly had been growing slimmer. Last week in one parliamentary battle he won by only three votes. The balance of power was in the hands of deputies calling themselves the U.D.S.R. (Democratic and Socialist Republican Union), who abstained rather than cause a crisis by voting against...
...Pleven, unofficial leader of the U.D.S.R., stepped up with a life preserver-with a long string to it. Pleven's proposition: if Schuman would promise to hold early elections (which the Gaullists would probably win), then the Gaullist R.P.F. would support him as an interim, anti-Communist premier. No longer would Schuman have to squeak by with dwindling majorities...
...blue-eyed Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture of the victors to the pretense of a community of aims that...
Walter H. Piston '24 has been named as the first man to hold the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music. Professor Piston, a leading American composer, has received wide acclaim for his chamber and symphonic compositions. His latest work, the Third Symphony, was given its world premier by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last January...
Prague was a city of fear, despair, and the dreaded swish of the iron brooms that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had put in the hands of his action committees...