Word: premiers
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Tangier, the chief port of Morocco, an international city at once quaint and modern, and strategically important because directly opposite the British base at Gibraltar, became once again last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration...
...Premier Baldwin was taking his annual cure at Aix-les-Bains, Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Ramsay Steel-Maitland hastened from his vacation in Scotland. At the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Arthur and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer conferred for an hour and a half with Mr. Cook and President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, arrived at no compromise...
Half a million pesetas ($76,350) were extorted last week in Madrid from that long-lived paragon of infamy and extortion, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 87, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, backer of the suppressed "Old Man's Revolution" against Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera (TIME, July 5). General Weyler, as Spanish Governor of Cuba (1896-97), not only taxed Cuban industry into bankruptcy and pocketed the taxes, but sold Spanish arms to Cuban rebels through secret agents-finally sent troops to seize the arms and execute the "traitors." Last week General Weyler...
...nine Canadian provinces, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan, have each their own Lieutenant-Governor, Parliament and Premier...
Canadian Hearst. Last week Sir William Howard Hearst, lawyer, onetime (1914-19) premier of Canada, arranged the consolidation of 22 Canadian department stores into a $10,000,000 chain, the Canadian Department Stores Ltd., and became its president. He expects it to operate from coast to coast...