Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zeeland's entire political career. By no means wealthy, Paul van Zeeland is nevertheless Europe's only banker-Premier. He served as secretary, director and later as vice governor of the Banque Nationale de Belgique for many years, but punctiliously resigned his post on assuming the Premiership...
...umpired a heroic political dogfight in which the Cabinet of this one of the Spains fell. At last Barcelona's quarreling hot anarchists & communists and warmed-over socialists & republicans grew so helplessly embroiled that most of them seemed relieved when President Companys agreed last week to add the Premiership of Catalonia temporarily to his other offices and worries. Dispatches reaching Valencia said that what had chiefly been accomplished at Barcelona was to "oust the anarchists from their previous control of the police...
...Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
King Leopold offered the Premiership to Socialist Leader Emile Vandervelde. The Catholics refused to support him. Last week the King turned again to van Zeeland. The "folded arms" strikes sweeping France had been copied by Belgian stevedores, diamond cutters, miners, munitions workers. Less tolerant than French police, Belgian police threw the strikers forcibly out of mines and factories they had occupied. In this atmosphere, Socialists and Liberals still refused to support van Zeeland. The King asked him to try again. Again he failed. The King spent a day talking turkey to Belgian politicians, told van Zeeland to try once more...
...radical Left rash of riots and arsons (TIME, March 30 et ante). In France last month's Popular Front election victory was followed last week, in precisely the same pattern, by Left-wing direct action, designed to compromise Socialist Leon Blum on the eve of his premiership. In France it took the form of an epidemic of "folded arms" strikes or "lock-ins" in munitions, airplane and automobile factories...