Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "To call me President of the Irish Free State is wrong. I am the President [Prime Minister] of the Executive Council [Cabinet...
Interjected a curt newsgatherer: "Is your position the same as that of the Prime Minister of Canada or Australia or South Africa in your relation to the British Government...
Stoutly replied Mr. Cosgrave: "It's stronger. The Dominions are coming around to our way gradually but we have a measure of authority now that they have not-officially. I'm the Prime Minister of the Free State and as such the titular head of the state. The Governor-General is appointed on my advice. He is merely the ceremonial representative of the British King. I come up for election in the Dail [the lower house] and have to be approved by the Seanad [the Senate]. Then I appoint my ministers and they are approved in the same...
Down a well-greased slide, at Glasgow, lurched, last week, the portly Duchess of Bedford. A burly workman had tipped the mechanism of the slide, giving her a shove. At her had been hurled a bottle of champagne by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, pious, charitable wife of the Prime Min- ister...
Royal Points. The King-Emperor, speaking through his Governor General, and for Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King said, in part: i) ''By agreement between the Governments of France and Canada and the Governments of Japan and Canada, it is proposed that each of these countries shall be represented in the other by a Minister pleni-potentiary." 2) "To assist in the development of transoceanic air routes, a site for an airship base has been purchased near Montreal. An airship mooring tower will be erected, and a public air terminal for airplanes provided." 3) "Among other...