Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn of Ontario asked the Ottawa Government to order flags flown at half-mast for Margaret Hayworth, asserted that the "world's jury" had found Adolf Hitler guilty of the child's murder. Dr. Richard L. Jenkins, of Warwick, N. Y., returning from an Edinburgh scientific convention when the Athenia was torpedoed, had written a poem "to the memory of Margaret Hayworth" on the voyage over...
...last week's news had no other effect, it certainly pepped up diplomatic gossip. Around the embassies went the story about Yang Chieh, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow: The day before the German-Russian pact was announced, Yang Chieh called on Russian Premier Viacheslav Molotov and asked what was up. Said he with Oriental suavity, he had heard rumors of a German-Russian plan to dismember Poland. . . . Thunderstruck, Premier Molotov gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland...
BUCHAREST--A new military government, using stern measures to wipe out remnants of the Nazi Iron Guard organization, tonight lined up and shot nine of the Nazi terrorists who assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu in the main street of the city...
...young Iron Guardists were led to the spot where the 46-year-old Premier fell from the running board of his car, his body riddled with bullets, and compelled to participate in a macabre reconstruction of the assassination while thousands of persons looked on. Then, when the re-enaction of the crime had been completed, the six men were lined up and shot by a firing squad, which marched off leaving the bodies sprawled in pools of blood. An official invitation had been issued to the public to witness the re-enacting of the crime and the executions, which occurred...
...swift punishment for the killing was directed by General George Argeshanu, Commander of the Bucharest Army Corps and former War Minister, who was named premier to replace the slain Calinescu by King Carol II and the Crown Council...