Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
...years and four months in office crowned the Baldwin Cabinet, last week, on the occasion of a compromise between its moderate majority led by Premier Baldwin and the arch-Tory group. This compromise effected, Britons could look with a justified satisfaction on the following men, now more firmly at the helm of State than ever...
This time it was a matter of the budget. At the bill's first two readings the Deputies had cut, slashed and patched it?over-riding the demands of the Government a dozen times. Vice Premier Bartel, twittering, rushed out to Marshal Pilsudski's suburban home for advice...
...Marshal is ill and will see no one," said a servant, closing the door firmly in the Vice Premier's face. As usual, Josef Pilsudski, sly possum, was playing dead. Five minutes later he received an old friend, Minister of Posts Medzinski. Together they arranged the morrow's little melodrama...
...analysis of the Romanov Tsars." Said he: "They were depraved and drunken despots. . . . Peter the Great personally decapitated many victims of his bestiality and buried others alive. . . . All the Romanovs were incurable epileptics. . . . Alexander III was a fat, greasy hippopotamus. . . ." During the Health Commissioner's harangue, Dictator Stalin, Premier Rykov and 200 other prominent communists sat gravely before Dr. Semashko in the Imperial Opera House, applauded him heartily...