Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Premier, Dr. H. H. Kung, was found last week to have quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
...reality Premier Duplessis is being used by these elements of reaction in order to put the quietus upon trade union activity, upon the growing unrest caused by the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. Hence Duplessis' refusal to cooperate with the Dominion goverment upon a scheme of legislation for Unemployment Insurance...
There, safe and unbombed in a tapestry-hung medieval chamber, the Deputies met for three hours, with several members of the British, French, Yugoslav, Norwegian and Swedish parliaments looking on as guests. No attempt was made to legislate. When the Premier, generally regarded as a front man for Socialist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, mentioned Prieto's name and coupled it with the People's Army (see p. 15}, he drew the one loud cheer...
Keynoting, Premier Dr. Negrin promised to issue food cards to everyone in Leftist Spain to ensure equal nourishment for all; he thanked the Soviet Union and Mexico for their aid; flayed Hitler and Mussolini; promised to be "merciless with profiteers"; advocated "banking controlled by the Government" and climaxed: "the war may last six months, or a year or two, but however long it lasts our economic strength will not be exhausted...
...Gommunist Party famed Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("The Passion Flower") entered "reservations" against points in the Premier's program speech, but joined the rest of the Deputies in voting "unanimous confidence." No further Cortes session scheduled, the Leftist Cabinet will thus continue to govern by decrees, ratified at long intervals...