Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mussolini: "Love is the prime pastime of mankind. . . . Modern woman cannot get away from love. . . . She is no new woman...
Soon obliging Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, beloved and industriously charitable wife of the Prime Minister, produced a broadly political and deeply feminine opinion: "A woman Labor leader at Bournemouth declared, the other day, that the Socialist party is out for power. I fancy that we Conservative women want something which is higher than power. We want peace and goodwill, and we shall never get it from a party that preaches power and warfare...
...long and bitter debate ensued. The Marquess of Salisbury, speaking for His Majesty's Government, earnestly besought Their Lordships not to oppose a bill which Conservative farmers had been promised by Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, himself a landed country squire and rabbit owner...
...State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's Cabinet never falls denies to Italy the benefits of periodically infusing new blood and brains into the Government. This Signor Mussolini now proposes to do by "rotating" the Ministries among able statesmen-that is, by kicking out of office, from time to time, dignified statesmen...
Last week this prophetic boast was made good. The nimble "Old Man of Crete" and his Liberals succeeded in upsetting the Cabinet of Alexander Zaimis, on a complex financial issue, and finally forced the appointment of Venizelos as Prime Minister...