Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London. It appeared certain last week that Britain and not the U. S. will call the Five Power Naval Conference scheduled for next January at which the tentative naval agreements thus far reached by President Hoover and British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald will be laid before France, Italy and Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command...
Small of stature but agile and smart is William M. ("Billy") Hughes, kinetic oldster, Wartime Prime Minister of Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
Next round Nebraska retaliated, tried a painful toe-twist on Poland. Soon the match grew really ugly. Joyous wrestling fans roared encouragement to both "for-eigners," completely forgot the distinguished presence of Statesman Hughes. Suddenly they remembered with a gasp. Directly in front of the onetime Prime Minister's seat grappling Nebraska got an annihilating hold, tautened mighty muscles and hurled ponderous Poland bodily through the ropes-218 pounds of beef and bone straight at the lap of little Billy Hughes...
...which Mr. Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week that they would run no candidate in North Sidney, his constituency, evidently intend...
Secondly Her Majesty signified strong approval for the recent proposal of French Prime Minister Aristide Briand for a general lowering of tariff walls among the nations of a "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept. 16). As a free trade country with a large mercantile marine The Netherlands would hugely benefit from such all-around scrapping of tariffs...