Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today it is Lord Rothermere who shouts as with a million tongues the praises of Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William...
...Wets (Roman Catholics, Anglicans and a few Presbyterians) sought under the leadership of shrewd Conservative Premier George Howard Ferguson to return enough representatives under his banner to permit him to secure repeal of the 0. T. A. and substitute a Government-controlled liquor rationing system. During the campaign Premier Ferguson raised a feminine hornet's nest about his ears by declaring: "Twenty-five years ago a girl would hardly speak to a man who carried a flask, but now a man without a flask is a man without a girl...
Danes elected to their Folkething (Lower House) last week 30 Conservatives, 46 Liberals, 53 Socialists and 16 Radicals. Since the Right (Conservative-Liberal) phalanx of 76 thus outnumbered the Left (Socialist-Radical) 69, Premier T. A. M. ("Tam") Stauning (Socialist) promptly resigned...
Iceland, as extensive as Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
...rather deep skimming of the cream of British art. Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman (TIME, Nov. 29) had bought the house, but not the famed art collection therein, of Dowager Baroness Michelham, the house once home of the spidery-signatured Marquis of Salisbury, Britain's onetime most aristocratic Premier. The Dowager Baroness Michelham put up the art collection at public auction. International buyers came to the house, with cohorts, many of them, of mysterious agent-bidders, "Mr. X," "Mr. Y," "Mr. Z." Sir Joseph Duveen was in the U. S. But Sir Joseph's in fluence was felt...