Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again, in again. That was the political gymnastic performed last week by gruff, choleric General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, His Majesty's Prime Minister in The Union of South Africa...
...brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social and every other kind of equality for blackamoors. On that issue they can probably be beaten, when a general election rolls round; and one must legally take place not later than next spring...
...Prime Minister without portfolio-Raymond Poincar...
...Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Justice-Louis Barthou...
Momentous is Prime Minister Pomcaré's decision not to hold the portfolio of Finance himself as heretofore but to entrust it to Senator Henri Cheron, Chairman of the Senate's Finance Committee and Minister of Commerce since the death of Maurice Bokanowski (TIME, Sept. 10). The Prime Minister significantly intimated last week that he will now have time to visit Berlin in connection with the momentous work of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably...