Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch. The King, whose power is rooted in Serbia, knows that so erratic and frequently boozy a statesman will not lead the "minorities" into a commanding position...
...King Alexander offers the Premiership to "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch, but by this time the Opposition parties are so disorganized by M. Raditch's failure that canny Peasant Davidovitch refuses even to try to form a cabinet...
...National Liberal Political fund was collected by the whips of that party in exactly the same way as every other political fund, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, for well over a century. ... As for the honor lists* during my Premiership, they were prepared by the chief whips in the usual way. They were then submitted to the joint leaders of the coalition, myself and Bonar Law, and afterward Sir Austin Chamberlain,? who succeeded him. We sat together in joint meeting to consider and settle those lists. The claims were urged on purely public grounds. . . . During the existence...
...Finance Minister Vintila Bratiano left his dead brother's bedchamber and hastened to present the Cabinet's resignation to the three Regents. They at once "commanded" him to assume the Premiership. Soon there was a new Premier Bratiano?with all Cabinet posts redistributed exactly as before...
...Bratiano died at 6:45 a. m., without having resigned his Premiership...