Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Byng was expected, as a matter of course, to call Mr. King to the Premiership. Interest quickened as to whether "the Premier-elect" could form his Cabinet soon enough to hasten from Ottawa to London in time for the Imperial Conference in October...
...hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first cousin, Premier Stanley Baldwin,* thought it worth while to rehearse softie of the oldtime Kipling duty-booming in the Government's emergency newssheet (TIME...
...after midnight when King Alfonso, enjoying a quiet game of bridge in the Miramar Palace at San Sebastian, was called to the telephone by an urgent summons from Premier de Rivera, who explained that twelve regiments of artillery were in mutiny and that the King's presence in Madrid was imperative...
...lurid "scoop" last week purporting to describe how a group of mutinous artillery officers held up His Majesty's car at Del Leon and forced him to promise to support their cause. Arrived at Madrid, Alfonso was declared to have repeated his conversation with the mutineers to Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, who allegedly remarked: "If your Majesty yields to the officers, I will proclaim a republic with myself as President...
...Dictator Premier Primo de "Rivera, pride-puffed, announced last week that over 6,000,000 votes had been cast in indorsement of his regime during the recent Spanish plebiscite (TIME, Sept...