Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
...client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent to rule on the international law involved...
Secretive Kamal Ataturk,* "Father of the Turks," is close and noncommittal in his dictatorship. Turkish consulates abroad last week had not even yet been officially informed that famed old General Ismet Inonu, dismissed as Premier, had been officially replaced last month by former Economics Minister Jelal Bayar (TIME, Oct. 11). Since Premier Bayar's elevation, Turkish politicians have been anxiously watching him for any indication of what new policies the Dictator picked him to carry out in the Parliament which sat last week. About all they have seen the Premier do is to stand respectfully at the elbow...
Ousted ex-Premier Ismet Inonu was slated to be elected last week president (speaker) of the Grand National Assembly, which was slated to adopt a new Turkish constitution. But events proved how little even the best informed Turks know the mind of their masterly Father. An obscure wheelhorse, Abdulhalik Renda was re-elected to the Assembly's presidency, and its members listened in vain for Kamal Ataturk to mention a new constitution...
...bringing coals to Newcastle to point out that the Yale game is one of the important social occasions in the life of the University, as well as its premier athletic event. On the evening after the game countless Harvard graduates, their families, and friends gather, from near and far to mingle with students in their rooms, and celebrate the victory to which all are looking forward. To close these parties out at seven, if past experience is a guide, will be pouring water on flames of festivity still burning brightly and well, flames which should be allowed to burn longer...