Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to be Premier. I am a poor man and need money for my campaign. You people are going to make money. You ought to contribute $40,000 to my campaign and pay me a salary of $5,000 yearly while you are working here...
...first Mr. Gould refused, but later he admitted that his partners found it necessary to present Premier Flemming with $100,000. Later, another Premier named Clark appeared and demanded $50,000. "I told him," testified Mr. Gould, " 'You won't get 50 cents.' He said he would legislate me out of the railroad business and he did. That's the only time he ever had the reputation of keeping his word...
...Indisputable evidence exists that the broad outlines of the Italo-Albanian treaty were drawn by these two statesmen [Premier Mussolini and the British Foreign Seccretary Sir Austen Chamberlain] during their famous meeting on Chamberlain's yacht* off the Italian coast at Leghorn in early October" (TIME, Oct. 11). 2) The previous British policy of upholding Albanian independence was scrapped as long ago as last June, when the British Minister to Albania, William O'Reilly, and Mr. Robert Parr, chargé d'affaires for many years, were both recalled from Albania and succeeded by the present Minister, William Seeds. 3) The Italian...
Died. Nikolas Kalogeropoulos, veteran Greek statesman, twice Premier; in Athens...
...seemed serene. Premier Ahmed Zogu of Albania transmitted official thanks for the Italian Red Cross aid. Then suddenly the press of Vienna and Belgrade blazed with ugly charges: 1) that the Albanian "earthquake" had not been recorded on the seismographs at Vienna and Belgrade; 2) that the only mention of the quake had been in Italian not Albanian papers; 3) that the "Red Cross" detachment was actually a group of Italian military strategists smuggled in to prepare a coup which would make Ahmed Zogu King of Albania and pave the way for an Italian attack on Jugoslavia through Albania...