Word: coalitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One course remained to President Doumergue short of yielding to M. Blum's now publicly announced desire to be asked to form a cabinet. The President could call upon M. Herriot, "leader" of the cartel of which M. Blum was the tail that wagged the dog. If M. Herriot...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible...
Stolid square-beamed Dutch politicians became heatedly vocal last week over an amendment to the budget passed by the Second Chamber,* which provides for the abolition of the Legation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vatican. The amendment was introduced by a Calvinist; and at once the Catholic...
The Federal Government in Australia took measures against the strikers. Walsh and other strike leaders were summoned before the Deportation Commission. In South Africa, Premier Hertzog, sitting perilously atop a coalition Govern-hands off. It was reported that 700 Lascars had shipped from Bombay to man the vessels at Durban...
But although President Saavedra thought he could rely on Villanueva, who had been his Minister of Education and Agriculture, he was mistaken. Instead of picking a Cabinet from the Saavedra faction, Villanueva decided to choose a coalition cabinet, three Liberals, three Republicans (Saavedrists).