Word: coalitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debentures In. Trouble began when the Senate voted 47 to 44 to retain in the bill the Export Debenture Plan, ten objections by President Hoover notwithstanding (TIME, April 29). The line of cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no...
Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused...
Secondly, it might seem impossible to devise a satisfactory way of betting on the British General Election as a whole, because the result may leave any one of the three parties or any two of them in power. Theoretically, should a roughly equal number of seats be won by each...
The platform of the Liberal Party is, in short, to promise Englishmen whatever they want, and to blame the Conservatives for unemployment, failure to meet the Coolidge naval limitations proposals, and inability to wriggle out of paying what the Empire owes the U. S. Throughout his speech Mr. Lloyd George...
Seldom has there been a national political situation more grotesque. General Hertzog remains Prime Minister by virtue of a slim, coalition majority in the House of Assembly-a majority constantly threatened by the Negro-elected Cape Province M. P.s. In the Senate the Smuts party reigns supreme, holding 25 seats...