Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased was Premier Benito Mussolini, who has been hotly demanding recognition of Franco and stirring up Italian editors to flay "Tony"' Eden, that last week the Dictator confiscated the entire edition of an Italian humorous weekly which had mildly cartooned "Tony." As the British Parliament adjourned to Oct. 21, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wrote and privately dispatched to II Duce a "personal letter of friendship...
...always happens after a major action has not turned out well, there was such unrest behind the lines last week that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin used his news-organ Socialista to point up the situation sharply: "Deterioration of the enemy's rear guard will serve us little if we do not guard our own rear. There are defects in our rear guard and silence regarding them serves no good purpose. There is but one duty...
...ministers, five of them generals. To Spaniards the name of General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, suppressed with hundreds of executions the proletarian uprising in Barcelona when he was Captain-General of Catalonia...
Since no precedents existed to guide His Majesty's Government, plans for last week's ceremony were evolved in last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier...
...this news item appeared under the headline, "Poor Butterfly Gets Jap Rewrite and Modernization; Par to Produce?" Variety's Tokyo correspondent evidently considered it unnecessary to mention that in addition to being a W. K. (well-known) conductor, Viscount Konoye is also brother of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. In Tokyo the Premier's brother's new Butterfly caused no commotion at all. This was because Viscount Konoye, whose family has assimilated easygoing Western ways and whose nephew is captain of Princeton's golf team, scandalized Tokyo society so thoroughly ten years...