Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor (Premier) Dr. Wilhelm Marx pressed forward with a preliminary draft scheme which looks toward consolidation of the various German state governments in the interest of general administrative economy. This he presented to the Laenderkonjerenz, a council of the chief executives of all the 18 states which constitute the Republic of Germany, of which Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg is President...
Healthy was the complete calm amid which the French Chamber opened, last week, for its last sessions prior to the general elections in April. The Government of Premier Poincaré won easily a vote of confidence of 310 to 227 on an issue of party politics which had been deemed dynamite-laden, and serene progress loomed in the Chamber while frenzied electioneering began outside...
...have been his bedazzlement upon receiving, last week, mail addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...
...entered the War. Paderewski went home to become Premier of Poland. He drew up a plan of an independent Poland. He went to the Peace Conference, helped Poland to its freedom, won international recognition for his distinguished service. For nearly six years he did not touch the piano. Then in 1922 he came back, proved that the stubby fingers had lost none of their fleetness, that the Paderewski tradition was supreme...
Commercial progress was signalized by the fact that Japan has recovered her financial equilibrium after weathering the appalling panic of last spring. The series of business failures which then occurred forced even the great house of Suzuki into bankruptcy (TIME, April 18), and toppled the cabinet of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki (TIME, May 2) who has been succeeded by Premier Baron Güchi Tanaka...