Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Who's Who 1927 and Europe 1927 (standard international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive...
...President may have arched surprised eyebrows last week, if he read a despatch from Argentina saying that famed news organ La Prensa, of Buenos Aires had carried an article by David Lloyd George in which occurred the sentence: "Mr. Baldwin [British Premier] has much in common with the malleable and garrulous Coolidge...
Soon onetime Premier Lloyd George declared, at London, that he originally wrote: "Mr. Baldwin is a malleable and talkative Coolidge." La Prensa had translated: "Mr. Baldwin se aremja al maleable y locuaz Coolidge...
Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
...with 10. Although Stanford enters today's competition still a heavy favorite to carry off championship honors, the most surprising upset of the first day occurred to one of the Californians best runners. Emerson Spencer, generally picked to depose Cecil Cooke, giant Syracuse negro, from his place as the premier quarter miler in college ranks, was forced out of the meet by falling to take better than a fourth in his qualifying heat in the 440, a heat which was won by Swope of Dartmouth in 49 7-10 seconds...