Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
French premiers are proverbially supple in their politics, but last week three statesmen aged 66, 63, and 55 who have held the Premiership a total of seven times proved themselves also supple in their joints...
...followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
...King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that no one was executed last year and that crime has been considerably decreased during my premiership...
...began an extraordinary oratorical campaign which so far restored the morale of the army that it launched a last desperate offensive against Germany in June. When this failed and the army collapsed the power of the Mensheviki became shadowy; but Minister Kerensky as the outstanding Menshevik leader assumed the Premiership which he held for four months...