Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hectare (2.47 acres) to somewhat over 16. Thus, without much increasing Italy's total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
Egged on by his Socialist supporters. Premier Paul Emile Janson, who has headed Belgium's coalition Cabinet of Liberals, Socialists and Catholics for the past six months, last week asked for increased taxes to carry on his social reforms. Catholic members, loud in their demands for cuts in Government expenditures, promptly bolted M. Janson's coalition, joined their own bitterest enemies, the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Léon Degrelle, to vote against the tax proposals. M. Janson then chose to resign...
...time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead in his own private train at a faster clip to Florence...
...years ago General John Metaxas. with the help of George II, King of the Hellenes, became Premier and soon after War Minister, Navy Minister Air Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. Added up, these offices spelled Dictator. Since that time short, fat, German-educated Dictator Metaxas has intermittently seen Red. Late in 1936 he directed one big "Red" purge. Early this year another one was staged. Between these events numerous minor roundups took place...
Died. Octavian Goga, 57, onetime anti-Semitic Premier of Rumania; of a paralytic stroke, near Cluj, Transylvania. For the past year a dominant figure in Rumanian politics, he became Premier last December, was dismissed by King Carol in February (TIME, Jan. 10, et seq.), spent his last days in exile...