Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After boasting that the unfavorable Irish trade balance is steadily declining, and that Irish mercantile business is on the boom, President Cosgrave dwelt upon the present hydro-electric development of the River Shannon, chiefly famed as a theme for lachrymal Irish sentiment...
...Socialist Government?the first one in five years?took office just nine years to a day after the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Hermann Müller and other Germans, cowed, docile. Hermann Müller was Prime Minister in 1920 for a brief term. His present swaggeringly named Cabinet will probably be revamped when Great Dr. Stresemann is able to be up and active again...
...place, while Architect Warren left disgustedly for Paris. Short-lived, however, was the Rector's triumph. Next day he received a message from His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant, who regretted that, under the circumstances, no member of the Royal Family would be present for the dedication of the new Library scheduled for July...
...month ago, by U. S. Candidate for President Herbert Hoover, who cabled: "The University of Louvain owns the new library and has undeniable jurisdiction connected with inscription and memorials. . . . Representing the donor of the larger share of funds employed in building library, I suggest you obtain immediate settlement present controversy on lines which will eliminate war bitterness and will reflect the true spirit of a great educational institution and be in accord with mature public opinion...
...Every Pole believes, on account of the present protection which the Government gives to industry, that the Premier is his special clerk. All my dear Ministers were pleased to push all their work on to me. For this reason I learned to hate the office. The only way of escape was by resignation. . . . However, I told the President I should be available for service in critical times. The control of international Polish policies still remains in my hands." The Prime Minister of the new Cabinet, formed last week, is Dr. Kazimir Bartel, previously Vice-Prime Minister. Marshal Pilsudski continues...