Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy of a true island Greek...
...President Roosevelt sent to Premier Hepburn the old Ontario mace carried off by raiding U. S. troops (or "brigands" as Ontarians called them) in 1813. Last week this mace came near to being the only thing "Mitch" could claim has been obtained by the Province of Ontario under his Premiership...
...atmosphere strained as the inside of a tiger cage, France last week held its first election since Gaston Doumergue took over the Premiership during the bloody riots which followed the Stavisky disclosures (TIME. Feb. 19). At stake were local provincial offices everywhere except in Paris. Month or so ago any political prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME...
...Alexander made himself Dictator of his country.* For Prime Minister he remembered the man who is said to have opened the door to the palace murderers years before. In 1932. mounting public protest forced King Alexander to remove the hated General Zivkovitch from the Premiership...
...vain another onetime Peasant Premier, M. Vaida-Voevod, pleaded that Mme Lupescu is not the political trouble-maker she is universally supposed to be. "During my premiership she caused no trouble and I obtained the King's promise to send her away," M. Vaida-Voevod illogically explained. "After her passport and a supply of money had been made ready the King changed his mind...