Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din and disorder. Representative Sam Hill of Washington hurrying to his House duties slipped on icy pavement, rammed a pipestem through the roof of his mouth, severed an artery...
...Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly...
...observed. But six days after the sod was tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
...José Sanchez Guerra was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera seized dictatorial power (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). Don José soon and ostentatiously went into "voluntary exile" at Paris, proclaimed that he did so in protest against Dictator Primo de Rivera's suppression of the Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim...
...triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat and shiny workman's cap. Yes, he had something to say to correspondents...