Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Observers, cogitating the news from Bar-le-Duc last week, deemed the speech of Premier Poincaré as surely and sweetly blended as Confiture de Bar-le-Duc, famed immemorial jam, exported hugely from the town to mingle on crackers with the cheeses of the world...
Editor Bainville declared positively next day, that these words are an expression of Premier Poincarés determination to pay the U. S. $409,000,000 which will be due some months hence, upon U. S. Army stocks purchased by France in 1919. Editor Bainville, a discreet mouthpiece, barely hinted that if Parliament can be induced to make this payment, M. Poincaré will next attempt to lead the deputies and Senators by easy stages down the hard road of general debt repayment...
...Americans who come to Italy with the intention of obtaining an audience with the Premier should not rely on their importance or face to guarantee fulfillment of the wish, but should bring their daughters with a bevy of debutante friends...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin and his Chancellor of Exchequer, Winston Churchill, were discovered to have been flayed roundly in a new novel by H. G. Wells, to be published in September, as a contribution to the country's coal-mining turmoil...