Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proceedings. Onetime (1921-1925), Premier Georges Theunis of Belgium opened the Conference, as Chairman last week with innocuous words: "Economic dislocation of Europe . . . feverish mentality produced by the War . . . this Conference must show the way to a future bright with hope...
...performance of a tragedy; but Londoners were ready to cry "Enough!" last week when the second act of a great British drama was protracted through four days. Theatre: the stately Palace of Westminster where Lords and Commons assembled beside the Thames. Players: all the chief Ministers of Premier Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet and virtually all the major protagonists of the Liberal and Labor opposition. Second act: the second reading of the Government's drastic Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9 et ante) ?a bill designed to put British labor into a legal straight jacket strong enough...
Popular among sporting Europeans is the Bugatti, a smart, small, high-powered automobile capable of 90 miles per hour without threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes...
Married. Miserosetta Macini, daughter of the only sister of Premier Benito Mussolini;* to Pier Giovanni Ricci, Fascist officer; in Rome. He (Benito Mussolini) acted as witness, gave her a ruby bracelet...
...Wagner's loves are important because of his music, so, reversely, this sketch is important because of the personal distinction of the writer. Louis Barthou was Premier of France from March to December of 1913, is Minister of Justice in the present Cabinet, is a member of the French Academy. His other books have been numerous. One is a study of Victor Hugo's affairs of the heart, Les D'Amours d'un Poete...