Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Byng was expected, as a matter of course, to call Mr. King to the Premiership. Interest quickened as to whether "the Premier-elect" could form his Cabinet soon enough to hasten from Ottawa to London in time for the Imperial Conference in October...
Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...
With the prestige of Poincaré assuring support from the Right, M. Briand turned to his confrere and rival of the Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...
Zaghlul, knowing himself persona non grata to the British, came to discuss whether he might assume the premiership. It was almost as though President Coolidge, duly erected by a Republican landslide, had felt obliged to ask the ambassador of a foreign power at Washington whether he might enter the White House...
Zaghlul, no cringing foe of Britain, was reputed to have told Baron Lloyd over the teacups that if he assumed the premiership he would not respect the "four rights"* which Britain reserves to herself in Egypt. The Baron, dandified of mien, direct of tongue, appears to have replied that under the circumstances Zaghlul could not become Premier of Egypt. High tea was ne'er brewed higher...