Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of Premier Count Stephen Bethlen had simply made public the text of a bill revising the present statute under which the number of Jewish students in Hungarian colleges is limited to about 5% of the total student body. Close examination of the new bill showed that even if passed it would not increase the Jewish ratio by more than 1%. But in anti-Semitic Hungary one more percent in Jews can seem too many. Even so, why did not the Hungarian police protect harassed Jewish scholars, last week...
...there may be a concert in Hamilton, N. Y. on the 26. A concert in Toronto is scheduled for the 27 and on the next night the club will sing in Ottowa, a concert which will be attended by the Governor General, and the Right Honorable W. L. MacKenzie, Premier of Canada...
...onetime Premier then said that, while the Prince could not become King of Rumania, there was nothing unconstitutional in his becoming a Regent. Said he: "I know nobody who speaks of placing Carol on the throne. If I thought he was a conspirator in wishing to return to Rumania I would not defend...
...private secretary to Field Marshal Lord Haig (then Sir Douglas Haig). At 30 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...
Held by bankers & investors in the U. S. are |70,000,000 of a French bond issue, paying a high interest rate of 8%. Premier Raymond Poincaré and his Government mulled over the problem of retiring them in favor of a new loan at a lower rate to be sought in the U. S. market. Governments who have not yet agreed upon a plan to pay their debts to this country are forbidden to raise funds...