Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propaganda Funeral. Not so light-hearted were Czechs, although they hoped that the German-Czech crisis had passed. The conversation between Führer Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten (Nazi) party, which claims support of 90% of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German minority, and Premier Milan Hodza on settlement of the Sudeten grievances, came to a halt last week as Führer Henlein journeyed to Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral...
...When Premier Edouard Daladier took his new job two months ago, heroics were needed to solve French financial troubles, to help French industry. Employers demanded the end of the 40-hour week, but any inclination on M. Daladier's part to give in to capital's demands would have been checked by his Socialist supporters. Last week the Premier made an ingenious compromise. The principle of the 40-hour week remains, but it can now be computed on a yearly basis. The new decree allows 2,000 hours yearly, thus giving employers seasonal elasticity in arranging their working...
With two more dynamite-loaded elections coming off, there was every indication last week that President Benes and Premier Milan Hodza will go the limit in an effort to satisfy the minority demands, short of granting actual autonomy. Last week, Hitler's stooge, Sudeten Führer Konrad Henlein was in Vienna conferring with German-Austrian Nazi leaders when Benes cracked down on his followers. All previous attempts to bring Führer Henlein to the conference table for a settlement of minority demands have been futile, but to nerve-frazzled Czechs last week came the reassuring news that...
...triple alliance between Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Premier Mussolini and General Franco is widely advertised and exalted by Rightist propaganda. Portraits of the three dictators appear on postcards. Every hotel this traveler has seen in Rightist Spain displays German. Italian and Rightist flags together," Callender wrote. "Mussolini's face, framed in a tin hat. glowers from the walls. Hitler's visage and book are shown in every town. . . . The Franco press, which uses foreign news selected by the German official news bureau, publishes nothing unfavorable to Hitler and Mussolini...
...Quintuplets in separate, guarded quarters. Last month Papa Dionne demanded a general inquiry by the Ontario Government into the handling of the Quintuplets' affairs by strong-willed Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Judge J. A. Valin and Percy D. Wilson, his fellow members on the board of guardians. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn flatly turned down Papa Dionne's demand, allowed Dr. Dafoe to continue to exercise supreme authority over the Quintuplets' health, permitted the girls' education to be placed under Ontario's Department of Education...