Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the return's of the Irish Free State election (TIME, June 20) have left President William T. Cosgrave still at the head of the largest single party in the Bail, he threatened last week to refuse to carry on as President (Premier...
...brought him, later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother of M. Daudet sent an open letter to Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action française. The world could not but listen; for this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse Daudet. Who does not know his works? Who has not read at least one of his Letters from My Mill...
Significance. When Signor Mussolini became Premier, five years ago, he found building at a standstill, due to the restrictions imposed by previous regimes upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...
Such were words spoken at Rome last week by Gino Lucetti, a youth whose bomb glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...