Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what amounted to a democratic deadlock, with a few more strikes of short or long duration starting daily, it occurred to the thoroughly aware and alarmed Socialist Premier that War veterans might try to resolve the situation by turning his Cabinet out by violence. In his newspaper Le Populaire he stirringly asked them not to "descend into the streets...
Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
Died. Andrew Michalacopoulos, 63, onetime (1924) Premier of Greece; of heart disease. A leader in Greece's Conservative Democratic Party and a Cabinet member for more than a decade all told, he last month was exiled to one of Greece's tiny islands in the Aegean Sea for "trying to undermine the country's finances, foreign policy and public order by secretly circulating libelous leaflets...
Died. Walter Scott, 70, Canadian newspaper publisher and first Premier of Saskatchewan (1905-16); of heart disease; in Guelph...
...believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided and padlocked, on the strength of his belief that it is disseminating Communism (TIME, Nov. 22). Most unfortunate recent victim of the Padlock Law was a Jewish Cultural Circle in Montreal whose 950-volume library...