Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven resolute women, all Drys, all members of the Government bloc in Poland's Sejm (Diet), arose from their seats last week, marched round and round the hall giving tongue to Dry slogans...
...purpose to drive out "monopolistic business." Into the discard has gone his black skull cap which made him a marked figure at the 1924 Democratic National Convention and helped win him the vice presidential nomination on the Davis ticket. Though a Democrat, his chief political support is a large bloc of independent voters who also insure the regular re-election of Republican Senator George William Norris...
...Announced he would buy a bloc of tickets to the Army-Navy football game for charity Dec. 13 (TIME, Nov. 24), but would not be able to attend. Forthwith 130 requests for the tickets piled up in the White House...
...meet what Editor Morrison described as a deplorable emergency he rallied his readers as follows: "[Our readers] already constitute the most powerful moral bloc of public opinion in this nation. How better can they exercise their power than by enlarging the bloc itself? . . . Every teacher in your public school should now be sought out-every professor on your college faculty-every minister in your town-every legislator in your state and representing your state at Washington-every colleague on your board-every parishioner in your congregation who can read serious discussion-every lawyer, physician, club woman, thoughtful business man, political...
Returns: The Pilsudski bloc, which had 120 seats in Parliament before the election, won last week 247 seats, a thumping majority in a parliament of 444 members divided among 22 parties. Even when in a minority, Marshal Pilsudski and his army clique have no difficulty in dictating to Poland, but they decided recently to become the majority in order to revise the constitution, rivet their power...