Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Governor General Earl Grey appointed Mr. Dessaulles to the Senate in 1907 the centenarian was 79 years old. Loud & long were the protests that he was "too" old." Even some of the Senators complained to Premier Sir Wilfred Laurier. But the wily French Canadian statesman smiled and said: "He will be here when most of you are gone." And, when Senator Dessaulles looks around the Senate at his slightly less hoary colleagues, he must admit that the prophecy has been fulfilled...
...Bloemhof in the Transvaal onetime premier of the Union of South Africa, General Jan Christian Smuts, arose to make a political speech...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
Born to Edda Mussolini, 17, Vittorio Mussolini, 11, Bruno Mussolini, 8, a brother-Romano Mussolini. Rushed to the side of his wife, Donna Rachele Mussolini, at the Villa Torlonia at Carpena, Forli, Premier Benito Mussolini. Said he to reporters, wagging a warning forefinger: "Remember that journalistically my wife and family do not exist!" But it was "arranged" that the new baby received due publicity. Before he was many hours old, it had leaked out through indiscretions, "intentional or otherwise," that the baby's features are "exactly like those of his illustrious father," which was rightfully considered an impossible piece...
Last week, as it must to all men, death came to Milan Ciganovitch, 40, last of all the assassins. He is said to have been the protege of the late premier Nikolai Pasuitch, who sent him to the U. S. for a year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...