Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...
...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...
...been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. As one of the few French statesmen the British really understand and admire and trust, he was most welcome. Since Great Britain and France are now, allied in a war whose severest engagements have been, and may continue to be, on economic fronts...
...measure of the personal independence she was to demand, the young Queen refused point-blank to allow her Prime Minister to write her first public speech...
...still-smarting convalescent from the occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London was whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton...