Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall be most grateful if you can obtain full publicity for the declaration I want to give you now," said Rumania's silky-mannered new Poet-Premier Octavian Goga to George Eric Rowe Gedye of the New York Times in Bucharest last week. "The Jewish problem is an old one here, and it is a Rumanian tragedy. Briefly, we have far too many Jews...
Fortnight ago when the Cabinet of Camille Chautemps fell, France dropped into something approaching political chaos (TIME, Jan. 24). Last week after everyone available had tried in vain to form a new Cabinet, France emerged from chaos with M. Chautemps once more Premier. His new Cabinet, as finally set up, excluded the Communists, dropped the Socialists, was comprised exclusively of his own moderate, middle-class party, the Radical Socialists who are a minority in the Chamber. But so relieved were all parties to see a government set up, that the Chamber approved the Cabinet...
...badly rocked boat of her political equilibrium. For despite every effort made by all parties concerned to conceal it, the Popular Front of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists was in a state of disintegration, and the chances of its long survival seemed slim. In his ministerial declaration Premier Chautemps frankly confessed that he headed a "transition government...
Also elected by the Supreme Soviet was a new Council of Commissars whose names were presented by Premier Vyacheslav Molotov. Of these 27 Russians only seven were Commissars a year ago, emphasizing the drastic nature of Stalin's recent "purge." Notably missing from this new Cabinet was Commissar for Justice Nikolai Vasilievich Krylenko, the pouncing prosecutor of early Moscow purge trials. Successor to Krylenko is Judge Nikolai Richkov, who sat on the bench which condemned to death famed Old Bolsheviks Piatakov, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Named new chief of the Caspian-i. e., No. 1 maker of five-year-plans...
...Premier had just passed around Turkish cigarets stamped with a pale blue swastika, traditional European symbol of antiSemitism. He had already announced his intention of sending 500,000 foreign-born Jews out of Rumania, sparing the native born (TIME, Jan. 24, et ante), and now he added...