Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...
Walter Ulbricht, once a Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...