Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equally egoistic was the funeral which Clemenceau demanded from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region
...After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
Cables from Madrid told one day last week that King Alfonso had decided to command the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera, that he would call to the Prime Ministry a grandee whose name and titles cannot be pronounced in less than three deep breaths...
...denied that His Majesty has contemplated any change, or asked the Prime Minister to tender his resignation in favor of the Duke of Alba. The great fitness of the Duke to head the Cabinet is acknowledged by all. The present Prime Minister -would never stand...
...while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like...