Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposition violently opposed the motion on the ground that it would be deprived of the power of working for the restitution of the Sultanate...
...House of Commons by seven votes over grievances concerning the treatment of ex-service men. Major Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Labor, said that all questions relative to ex-service men would be considered by a committee. The House, however, evinced its dislike of committees by defeating the official motion " that the House do now go into committee of supply on civil service estimates...
Premier Stambuliski instituted a novel means of combatting Communism. He introduced in Parliament a motion to force all districts with more than ten Communist electors to establish work settlements with equal distribution according to Communist doctrines. Toward this end all property belonging to Communists will be expropriated by the State...
Germans. A coup de sabotage was effected with great success when the Germans set in motion nine wild trains in the direction of Wesel. The eighth train ran into the seventh on the Lippe bridge and smashed 70 cars...
...delegate pointed out that the King was not a political opponent and it was decided to delete the last phrase of the resolution stopping at the word "functions." The motion was then passed amid cheers and cries of "We thought revolution was knocking at our doors...