Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is envisioned a shifting of the whole burden of British taxation so drastic as to seem epochal. Chancellor Churchill, beaming with confidence, announced that his program has the unanimous support of all members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet (Conservative). It is scheduled to come into effect as of Oct. i, 1929, with the passage of a series of bills, which the Cabinet expects to carry through Parliament before Christmas...
Contented Australian Nationalists took the opposite view and praised their smart Prime Minister, sleek Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who is so modern that he has a private airplane garage in his basement and frequently flies forth...
Since the Bulgarian city of Philippopolis had already suffered an earthquake, last fortnight (TIME, April 30), the Bulgarian Government of Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff was fully aroused, last week, and proceeded by drastic means to cope with the additional disasters as they occurred...
...which alert Prime Minister Bruce received blame & praise, last week, was to sell for a total of ?1,900,000 seven great ships which cost some ?7,500,000 when they were bought some five years ago by the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott...
...number of Communists holding seats in the Chamber of Deputies was halved last week as Frenchmen balloted overwhelmingly for candidates favorable to Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...