Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-General Gomez da Costa dismissed last week somewhat curtly his Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Carmona...
Able, kindly U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick promptly procured the remedy. Despatches, doubtless somewhat hasty, reported M. Clemenceau cured...
Meanwhile Deputy Andre Tardieu, a somewhat unattached champion of the Right, set out to hamstring whatever negotiations might be going on between M. Caillaux and foreign bankers, among whom there was even mentioned Dr. Schacht of the German Reichsbank In order to embarrass Caillaux, Deputy Tardieu relentlessly interpolated Premier Briand before the Chamber, demanding assurances that the Finance Ministry was not negotiating secretly in such a way as to tie the Chamber's hands before the Cabinet's fiscal program was even submitted for debate...
...Cabinet's impending fall was freely predicted, and M. Tardieu was somewhat prematurely touted as M. Caillaux's successor. His record is scarcely inspiring, though he proved himself for many years a useful henchman to M. Clemenceau. His only ministerial experience was gained in 1919-20 when he held with distinction the portfolio of Devastated Regions. As everyone knows, he came to the U. S. in the role of French High Commissioner...
...maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished...