Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Hungarians are so reactionary that they retain the form of their government as a kingdom, although deprived of a king by the Allies, and because arch-reactionary Premier Bethlen has been continuously in office longer than any other European prime minister, there is strong likelihood that his new program of openly Fascistizing Hungary will be put through...
...storm of industrial insolvency which had been gathering over Japan since the disastrous earthquake of 1923, burst last week and forced the resignation of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki's Cabinet...
Alexander I, harassed king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, received the resignation of Premier Nikola T. Uzunovitch last week, as the shaky coalition supporting his Cabinet collapsed amid a bedlam of local party squabbles. By His Majesty's command onetime Minister of Public Works Velja Vaounkitchivitch formed a seemingly most unstable Cabinet upon a coalition of Radicals and Democrats, parties hitherto bitterly opposed...
...effort to clear the air, Premier Wakatsuki attempted to secure approval from the Imperial Privy Council to extend enormous credits from the Bank of Japan to save the Bank of Taiwan. The Privy Council, a body of august solons with super-legislative power, responsible only to the Emperor, refused to sanction the Cabinet's plan. So, although Premier Wakatsuki had a parliamentary majority, he resigned with his Cabinet...
...Exchange. His Majesty, the newly ascended Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito, received last week the first resignation of a Cabinet during his reign (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), at 9:10 a. m. from the Imperial Chamberlain. By 11:00 a. m. newsboys were crying on the street that the new Premier was General Baron Guchi Tanaka, leader of the Seiyuka.* Thus New Japan, with her young athletic, enlightened Tenno and highspeed printing presses, kept the public waiting not over two hours for an exchange of government which in ancient days endured decorously and interminably. Japanese editors applauded the new Tenno...