Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Bedford Bennett, 57, full throated as a singing thrush. Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost a year of diligent seeking, by the election of Barrister Ben- nett as Conservative Leader...
Last year's Millrose meet was a triumph for Harvard when A. H. Miller '27, premier sprinter of the Crimson squad, flashed home in front of a strong field in the 50-yeard dash. Frank Hussey, of Boston College, Robert McAllister, "the Flying Cop", and Morrill of Boston University took Miller's dust in this race...
From Paris came news which all Germans scanned eagerly. They learned that the Agent General of Reparations, Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, called last week upon Premier Raymond Poincaré of France, and drew from him an admission that the French Government might soon consent to some scaling down of German reparations and to their fixation at a definite total sum. This last point was strongly urged by Agent Gilbert in his most recent report (TIME, Dec. 26), and, last week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian...
Ascending the Tribune he delivered a masterful defense of his policies, and then, before the Opposition could reply, produced an Imperial rescript dissolving the Diet. By this stratagem Premier Tanaka secured the widest possible publicity for a speech which amounted to the electoral platform of his party, and at the same time checkmated the Opposition's desire to air its contrary platform in the Diet...
...premier U. S. banks were...