Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) which continued its sessions in camera last week, Premier Baldwin said...
...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
...existence. As administrator of the Massey Educational Fund left by his grandfather he enjoys the distinction of being culturally a power. Upon quitting the University some years ago he became President of the Massey-Harris Company, from which he resigned to become Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Premier King...
...Committee pursued its negotiations with Premier Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
...Premier Poincaré, shrewd psychologist, able politician, has been putting off until the last possible moment the autumn session of the Chamber of Deputies and has thus gained time in which to proceed unhindered with his franc-saving program which has raised the franc from 40 to the dollar to 30 to the dollar, since the Chamber rose (TIME...