Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forget what?" celebrating German-Austrians asked each other. Suddenly crowds got the crazy idea that Premier Mussolini had presented the Italian Tyrol (pop. 613,000, of whom 230,000 are racially German) to Chancellor Hitler. Soon the big-boned, blue-eyed German troops swinging through German-Austria were greeted with shouts of "Tyrol is Free! Tyrol is Free...
...usual for a Cabinet to "fall," overthrown by an adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
...western slopes of Lake Garda one day last week rumbled a gun carriage bearing the body of Italy's poet, prince, lover, soldier and No. 1 eccentric, 74-year-old Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Monte Nevoso, who had died two days before. Beside the carriage walked Premier Mussolini and the poet's estranged wife, the Duchesse of Gallese. Up the tortuous, winding road to Gardone di Sopra wound the procession, through lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest imparted conditional absolution, although virtually all the poet...
...Thus when a prisoner named Prokopy Zubarev testified that in the remote past the Tsarist police gave him 15 rubles ($7.50) on two successive occasions, Vishinsky responded with his menacing stage whisper: "Aha, thirty silver pieces. Twice more than Judas."* One of the neatest signals was given by former Premier Faidsula Khodzhaev of Uzbekistan, a swarthy Asiatic speaking Russian as thick and soft as a Negro drawl. "I ask you to believe me!" he cried at the climax of his confession, "but of course you cannot believe me, because of my position here!" To this wily Asiatic it fell...
Yagoda this week is to appear as one of the accused, last week testified as a witness against the accused Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Lenin as Premier of the Soviet Union (1924-30), and Nikolai Bukharin (probably the closest friend of the founder of the Soviet regime alive today) for years known as "Heir of Lenin."† Rykov and Bukharin said last week that they had nothing to do with the assassination at Leningrad in 1934 of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Yagoda, who had been standing with head down, snapped up at this to testify...