Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Dr. Juan Negrin abruptly dropped out of his Cabinet the moderate Leftist who has been the key man of the regime, National Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, the builder of the People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
Every able-bodied man in Leftist Spain was promised by Premier Negrin death before a firing squad unless within 72 hours he should volunteer for the People's Army. The new Minister of Justice is picturesque Ramón González Peña, an Asturian firebrand who led squads of dynamite-throwing miners against the Rightists in the early days...
...Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept secret last week...
...Vice Premier also declared and the People's Commissars affirmed that "self-satisfaction and conceit" are prevalent vices among the Soviet Arctic scientists; moreover, that under Hero Schmidt there have been employed "methods of selecting personnel which provided an excellent base for the criminal anti-Soviet activities of wreckers...
...Bucharest last week the seven-week-old emergency Cabinet, organized by bosky-bearded Patriarch Miron Cristea when King Carol made himself Dictator (TIME, Feb. 21), was quietly reshuffled. The galaxy of six former Premiers, who as his Ministers without Portfolio lent their prestige to Dictator Carol in the crisis, dropped out of the Cabinet last week, were replaced by a line-up of lacklustre politicians and yes-men, of whom Rumania has many. As Stooge No. 1 the 69-year-old Patriarch was again sworn in as Premier...