Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva remained all last week in suspended animation, while the chief British delegates journeyed to London for a conference with Premier Baldwin on the eve of his sailing for Canada (see below...
...Empress of Australia churned steadily across the Atlantic, last week carrying to Quebec T.H.R. Edward of Wales and his youngest brother Prince George, together with Premier & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and a joint retinue...
...Pré Catalan,* smart restaurant in the leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen...
...week, Premier Ponicare had refused to admit to newsgatherers that he knew his ministers were going to make him an anniversary gift. When M. Barthou unwrapped his package, the "surprise" of M. Poincare was tact itself. The gift was typically French, a book. Only a connoisseur would have recognized the excessive rarity of this copy of Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli by Robert de la Motte-Ango, Marquis de Flers, with hand lithographed illustrations signed by Mutcha, and a superb binding by the great Charles Meunier. On the fly leaf was written...
...Raymond Poincare has been 15 years a Deputy, 27 years a Senator, eight times a Minister, three times Premier (1911-13, 1922-24, 1926-), and was the great Wartime President of France (1913-20). His achievement during the last twelve-month has been: first, to raise the value of the franc from 41 to the dollar to 26; second, to cut the short-term indebtednesses of the State from 24,000,000,000 francs to less than 8,000,000,000 francs; third, to increase the Treasury reserves from 50,000,000 francs...