Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full Cabinet roster runs to 21 ministers, with six more in a secondary category and not ordinarily present at the Cabinet table-an example, the Solicitor General for Scotland, A. M. MacRobert. Two peers hold high but chiefly honorary Cabinet rank: the Earl of Balfour (Premier 1902-05), and the Marquess of Salisbury-these respectively Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords...
...only has Premier Baldwin kept from falling between the two stools of his party (Moderate-Conservative, and Tory), but his old fashioned brier pipe has become so much a part of the British scene that last week the King-Emperor remarked, on seeing a mammoth pipe exhibited as an advertisement, "They ought to give it to Baldwin...
Instead of appointing a new Foreign Minister, last week, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera took this portfolio himself...
...Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez, bantam Mussolini, bestirred himself with more than wonted vigor throughout the week...
...Suppressed the Communist newspaper Justica; banished onetime President of the Chamber of Deputies Rafael Luis Gumucio as a "Red"; jailed onetime Premier Ladislao Errazuriz for the same trumped-up offense; and arrested 19 "Red" Deputies and 100 "Red" citizens-really his political enemies, who were forthwith hurried into exile upon a ship bound for Central American ports...