Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 8, the day after Ali Razmara, Iran's able, pro-Western Premier, was assassinated, Mossadegh submitted to the Iranian Majlis his proposal to nationalize Iran's oil. In a few weeks a wave of anti-foreign feeling, assisted by organized terrorism, swept him into the premiership...
...Professor Albert J. Guerard's "Andre Gide." In the appendix, Guerard publishes two letters from Gide who read a preliminary version of the book. During the fall a biography of Lloyd George will be printed, written by Thomas Jones, who was deputy secretary of the British Cabinet during his premiership...
...Professor Albert J. Guerard's "Andre Gide." In the appendix, Guerard publishes two letters from Gide who read a preliminary version of the book. During the fall a biography of Lloyd George will be printed, written by Thomas Jones, who was deputy secretary of the British Cabinet during his premiership...
...that Syria (which is roughly equal in size and population to Missouri) should align itself with the West, a point of view which sometimes results in having one's head blown off. Surprisingly, Syria's strong man, Lieut. Colonel Adib Shishakli, who had approved Hakim's premiership, made no objection; neither was there popular outcry. Hakim's reasoning, in interviews with newspapermen, was hardheaded...
Candidates for the premiership started a revolving-door traffic the next day. First to try was M.R.P. Leader Georges Bi-dault. He hoped to put through a one-ballot reform system and proposed a sense-making coalition running all the way from the Socialists to the Gaullists. The prospective coalition members balked...