Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settlement of the coal strike. Though the bishops proposal had the endorsement of the Miners' Federation Executive Committee, it was rejected last week by the miners 367,650 to 333,036. Rationally considered, this rejection displayed considerable mass common sense among the miners, for Premier Baldwin had already announced that the bishops proposal was not acceptable to the Government and consequently there existed no chance of putting it into effect. Shrewd Laborites deplored, however, the psychological effect of this rebuff to the potent and, in this instance, sympathetic Church of England...
Beds. Versailles is a small town. Last week there were not beds enough for some 300 Senators and 500 Deputies who journeyed out from Paris to constitute, in joint session, the National Assembly of France. All provident, the Government of veteran Premier Poincaré despatched from Paris a truckload of beds and bedding, caused them to be distributed to good advantage among the hotels of Versailles. Came dawn. Through the forethought of M. Poincaré, the Senators and Deputies arose refreshed, complacent, found themselves even provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every...
Bank Fund. The final fiscal reform measure for which M. Poincaré secured passage last week authorized the Bank of France to create by the purchase of foreign currencies a non-fluctuating monetary reserve for manipulation in defense of the franc. Premier Poincaré declared roundly before the Senate: "The franc has reached a point where it is much below its real value. The Bank of France bills are guaranteed in such a manner as to render unjustified the absurd present rate of the franc in international exchange...
...noted Italian alienists, Professors August Giannelli and Sante de Sanctis, have been pursuing for the last month a careful examination of the frail, white-haired Irishwoman who nicked Premier Mussolini's nose with a revolver bullet last spring (TIME, April...
Last week the Premier's would-be-assassin, the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of Baron Ashbourne, known since childhood by her family to have been of unsound mind but never restrained by them, was pronounced by the Italian alienists, "a dangerous homicidal paranoiac who should be permanently held in an insane asylum...