Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year, Premier Juan Negrin of Spain...
North China's ancient capital Peking, which has been called Peiping for the past nine years by decree of Premier Chiang, is now administered by Chinese officials under orders of its Japanese conquerors. Last week amid local rejoicing the city resumed its name of Peking, meaning proudly "Northern Capital," whereas the insipid name of Peiping has meant "Northern Peace...
...comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...
...second poll in France's nationwide election for municipal councilors (TIME, Oct. 18), confirmed last week the first results tabulated fortnight ago, proved two things: 1) the Radical Socialist Party of Premier Camille Chautemps. a party which is not radical but studiously middleclass, still polls more votes in local elections than any other; 2) the Socialist Party of Vice...
...Premier Léon Blum, which is an actual Socialist party and polled most votes in the national election last year, has not repeated this triumph in the local balloting. This meant that the French "New Deal," introduced under M. Blum when he became Premier in 1936, has now lost the wide appeal it had at first. French voters seem predominantly satisfied by the way in which Premier Chautemps has sidetracked the New Deal at the point of radical progress it had reached when the Blum Cabinet fell (TIME, June 28 et seq.). This policy canny M. Chautemps calls...