Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to stress again the fact that you committed a very grave error in geography when you defined as the Basque country the southwest part of France. You failed to mention those Basques residing in Spanish territory from time immemorial, and who before Premier-Dictator Primo de Ribera came into power had many special powers and privileges which are called in Spanish "fueros." The Basques in Spain occupy quite a large territory called "las provincias vascon English, the Basque provinces, is one of these Basques...
Tactful Speeches. Since Quebec was French territory from 1632 to 1759, the spot on which the British Princes and Premier landed last week has been "The King's Quay" since the days of His Most Catholic Majesty, Louis XIV, King of France...
...would not warm to such easy, hospitable words?although indeed Premier Baldwin's political friends in England must have shuddered to read his unconsidered and spontaneous indiscretion: "Sometimes I feel that we can never...
Ferdinand's Will. Despatches from Rumania told of the steady sobbing of Dowager Queen Marie, as the will of King Ferdinand was read, in the presence of herself, the three Regents and Premier Bratiano...
Since everyone knew that King Michael's signed proclamation had been drafted by Premier Jon Bratiano, the ruling oligarch of Rumania (TIME, July 11), it was perhaps "natural" and "fitting" that the boy-king's first state paper should thus bristle with elderly, drawing-room conceits. It was like Jon Bratiano, 63, to approve phrases such as "laurels gathered on the battlefields," and "eyes [King Ferdinand's] which never ceased to contain unlimited affection." What did phrases matter to the Dictator? A man-king approaching his second childhood had simply been replaced by a boy-king in his first...