Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty George V, King and Emperor, reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power...
...Premier Raymond Poincare and his Ministers are turkey-gobblers, the laughingstock of the universe, the shame of France...
...Gathered excitedly in unusual numbers and commenced august debate when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin suddenly put forward its long mooted and highly reactionary proposal to "reform" the House of Lords...
...Premier Mussolini once edited (1912-14) the leading Italian Socialist daily, Avanti...
...Premier Raymond Poincaré hastily convened the Cabinet which promptly suspended Director Catry of the Prison Sant...