Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, MAY 26, SAYS: "AT THE SAVOY HOTEL HE [PREMIER DREW] GAVE A PARTY FOR ABOUT 400 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S BIGGEST BIGWIGS." PREMIER DREW DID NOT GIVE PARTY. TORONTO "GLOBE AND MAIL" . . . QUOTES PREMIER DREW AS SAYING: "i DID ATTEND A RECEPTION AT THE SAVOY WHICH WAS ARRANGED BY A GROUP OF CANADIANS IN LONDON. . . . THE ENTIRE EXPENSE OF THIS AFFAIR WAS BORNE BY THIS GROUP OF CANADIANS AND IT DIDN'T COST ME OR THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT ONE COPPER...
...Premier of the new coalition Government...
...Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo, wartime premier of Japan. Tipped off that General MacArthur had ordered the hard-bitten little war lord's arrest, the newsmen had scrambled out ahead of the Army detail that would take him in. They grew impatient, sent a Japanese in to offer him a lift into town if he'd surrender to them instead. He refused to emerge from his study...
...contemporary Europe, especially in Italy, many churchgoing Catholics vote Communist. Recently, when Italy's Premier De Gasperi boasted that 99% of Italians were Catholics, Communist Leader Togliatti reminded him that 4,000,000 Italians voted Communist in the last national election (TIME, April...
...France, Premier Ramadier's Government continued shaky but his Socialist Party backed...