Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole. The great confusion of party lines made it difficult for even the Marshal to count his Deputies with exactness, but he claimed 150 out of a Sejm of 474. The only trend discernible among the other parties was a leftward shift which virtually undermined the formerly potent Nationalist bloc and slightly swelled the ranks of the Communists...
...been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden's rivals is not to oppose him in the States which his friends regard as his farm constituency, partly because they think Lowden...
Vote counting after the Japanese general election, last week, revealed at first glance only a disheartening deadlock between the two chief parties. Upon closer inspection a healthy trend was observed, away from the multiple bloc system which has been the curse of Japanese politics, and toward a two-party line...
...election of 1924 there were three principal parties, holding respectively 160 and 114 and 109 seats out of a House of 464. Thus onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki was obliged to carry on with a coalition in which his party was but little larger than its chief supporting bloc...
...Picturesque "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch withdraws the support of his Democratic-Mussulman bloc from the Cabinet of Premier Velja Vukitchevitch, which resigns...