Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
...heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox finance, soon took Governor Tannery into camp, assisted in maneuvering M. Flandin out of the Premiership, and substituted for credit-loosening and pump-priming during the eight month Premiership of Pierre Laval a comforting façade of French Treasury orthodoxy behind which burgeoned the deficits from which France has been unable to escape since...
...gutter-yappers against His Majesty's Government such newsorgans as London's Liberal Star, which railed against the Prime Minister next day: "The grand old woman of British politics, Stanley Baldwin, passed through an hour of humiliation in Commons debate which most Englishmen would give a Premiership to avoid...
...from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as "The Speck." From this insignificant island Joe Lyons bounded with Horatio Alger rapidity to the Premiership (January 1932) of busted Australia whose national credit he proceeded to restore. Australian-born, the Premier and Mrs. Lyons had never been outside Australia in their lives until this spring when they sailed for the Royal Jubilee to ride at London in a State carriage behind King George...
Privately Catholics discussed with their priests the latest move of wavy-haired young King Leopold III in calling to the Premiership an economist untried in statecraft, Professor Paul van Zeeland, Vice Governor of the National Bank of Belgium. In her wisdom Mother Church could offer no fiscal consolation. Her attitude, cautiously reflected by the Catholic Press of Belgium, was that no good could be expected of van Zeeland, "an admirer of Roosevelt...