Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unexpected sunshine after days and days of heavy rain. Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, climbed into a big motor launch, chugged two miles down the Seine and up again accompanied by Premier Leon Blum, many a foreign ambassador and other bigwig. The party then hastened to the colonnaded Grand Palais and thus was inaugurated last week the Paris Exposition, originally scheduled to open...
...eyed, white-bearded Theodore Steeg, Senator and onetime Premier of France (1930-31), sailed last week from Marseille to Morocco. With him went a detachment of doctors, hygiene experts officials from the Finance Ministry and officers of the General Staff, on a pressing mission...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...
Swashbuckling Premier General Senjuro Hayashi, head of Japan's "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, summarily dissolved the Diet two months ago because the Diet's Minseito (majority) & Seijukai (minority) parties truculently refused to pass one of his pet measures...
...elections were held. To the chagrin and amazement of Hayashi and his gold braids more than 400 of the 466 Diet seats went to avowed opposition parties. The bellicose Premier, ignoring Japan's voters, remained in office (TIME, May 10). But he had reckoned without the political parties who, after much Japanese skirmishing, got round this week to passing a motion of no-confidence in the Hayashi Government. This finally convinced the Premier that he was unpopular. He called a final Cabinet meeting; sadly proceeded with his ministers to Emperor Hirohito, resigned...