Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Adams went to Boston, his home, as prime guest at a Republican banquet and there spoke as follows...
...government tried and failed to limit naval armaments with the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...
...Fascist State. "Foreigners might get the impression," explained a Blackshirt chieftain gravely, "that there are no pretty girls in Italy!" No hint of this eminently practical point reached the Fascist masses. The official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week...
Therefore, last week, Comrade Rykov's various duties were declared too much for one man, and he was relieved as Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, i. e., the prime minister of Central Russia, though he still remained Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, i. e., the prime minister of all the Russias. Cergy Ivanovich Syrzow, a close friend of Dictator Stalin, succeeded to the first title. The suggestion was obvious to the most obtuse that further reactionary moves...
Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...