Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Premier & Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, instead of dashing to his office at Hankow in a limousine with motorcycle escort, last week was whisked to work in a rickshaw escorted by guards on bicycles. Other Chinese bigwigs were warned to follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable...
...weak, confused Government of Left Republican Santiago Casares Quiroga issued a communiqué condemning a revolt that it admitted had broken out in Spanish Morocco, but protesting that "nobody, absolutely nobody had taken part in this absurd scheme" in Spain proper. But before the week was out Premier Casares Quiroga's "nobody" had grown to a formidable list of somebodies, including Spain's best generals, 75% of the Spanish Army of 120,000 officers and men, many devout Catholic communicants, an overwhelming majority of the numerous Roman Catholic clergy, former noblemen and landowners, Fascists and Carlists...
...Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...
...wheat problem, however, is only one of Premier Mussolini's many headaches. Italian gold reserves, drained by the Ethiopian campaign, have fallen to $212,000,000. Italy's adverse trade balance of $300,000,000 last year was the highest since 1930. This year's is still mounting. Exports have not fallen off materially, but the value of the lira has declined and as a consequence Italy has to pay more for the raw materials, such as coal, oil, which she cannot get at home. On the surface, her industry is prosperous. Heavy industry is making high...
...National Social Christian Party of Adrien Arcand has found a happy home in Quebec. Leader Arcane! is publisher of Montreal's new Fascist party organ Le Combat National, editor of L'Illustration Nouvelle, semi-official organ of Premier Maurice Duplessis' Provincial Government, and his Jew-baiting, corporatist teachings have fallen on approving ears in Canada's most conservative spot. But Leader Arcand has long aspired to become a national as well as a provincial politician, so last week he scheduled Canada's first national Fascist convention for Kingston...