Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...
Bulgaria's War-time Prime Minister, Vasil Radoslavoff, has spent the past eleven years in exile, with his son-in-law's spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...
...Prime Minister Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...