Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your article on China where you have referred to Smedley Darlington Butler as "Old Gimlet Eye" and "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," "premier 'Fighting Devil' among 'Devil Dogs,' " etc., don't you think all these nicknames are absurd? I do not believe General Butler is such a terrible...
...Majesty crossed the Channel from France in a British warship, escorted by five destroyers and five airplanes. Edward of Wales met him at Dover, and they traveled swiftly by special train to Victoria Station, London. There the King-Emperor and Premier Stanley Baldwin waited...
...noticed that Premier Sarwat Pasha of Egypt stepped from the train only to slip off in the company of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. Theirs was the meeting of real importance...
...Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator...
Should U. S. President Calvin Coolidge invite three thugmen to dine with him, the event would be scarcely more shocking than a recent dinner in Tokyo at which the Premier of Japan sat down to eat with three of the "Defiled Ones," members of the despised class called...