Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Highest reasons of state caused Premier Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincaré to speed, last week, from Paris to Strasbourg. Though the city is chiefly famed for producing pâtés de foie gras and as the place where La Marseillaise was composed, Strasbourg loomed last week exclusively as the political focus of Alsace-Lorraine...
...change the complexion of the whole affair. He mentioned the fact that Cochet, second ranking French player, played a far better game on foreign courts than on those in his own country, and that George Lott is a much better player on hard courts, being in his opinion the premier hard court player in this country. As the final of the Davis Cup contest will be played on hard courts and as Lott is just now playing the best game of his career, this one fact may have a great deal to do with the outcome...
...Premier and Finance Minister Raymond Poincare won a smashing vote of confidence, 370 to 131, last week, on his whole financial policy. Thus he reaped well after sowing a gigantic eight-hour speech (TIME, Feb. 13), in which he explained and defended the means whereby he had rescued the franc from decline and virtually stabilized it within only 18 months...
...Picturesque "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch withdraws the support of his Democratic-Mussulman bloc from the Cabinet of Premier Velja Vukitchevitch, which resigns...
...Peritch (Radical) reports that no basis exists for a broad coalition cabinet. His Majesty then turned back to that other Radical who had resigned as Premier earlier in the week, M. Velja Vukitchevitch. King Alexander entrusts him with a mandate equivalent to "As you were !" and he sets out to reassemble his former predominantly Radical cabinet...