Word: der
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Theunis resigned (TIME, Apr. 27). Since that date, M. Éimile Van der Velde, Count Charles de Broqueville, M. Aloys Van de Vyvere, Burgomaster Adolphe Max have ineffectually tried to form or maintain Cabinets (TIME...
Last week, Viscount Poullet, after ten days of negotiation, did what all Belgians declared impossible: he formed a Catholic-Socialist Government, dared to make the Socialist leader, Éimile Van der Velde his Foreign Minister...
Would the Socialist M. Émile Van der Velde accept the Premiership? Certainly. But neither the Catholics nor the Liberals would support him and, since a coalition government was the only one possible, M. Van der Velde had to renounce the Premiership...
...close onto two months, Belgium has been looking for a Government- and being disappointed. On Apr. 5, Premier Theunis resigned because the Socialists had gained 12 seats in the general election. King Albert summoned Emile Van der Velde to the palace and invited him to form a Cabinet. He failed (TIME, Apr. 20). The King summoned Charles de Broqueville to the palace and invited him to form a Cabinet. He failed. The King summoned Aloys Van de Vyvere to the palace and invited him to form a Cabinet. He succeeded (TIME, May 25). Like a new kitten...
...Cincinnati, last week, was held the 26th biennial music festival, one of the oldest, most thriving traditions of its kind in the U. S. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by Franz van der Stuckin, a festival chorus, a children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices procured from the local free schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius...