Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fully elaborated project for a compromise between Church and State was said, last week, to await only the election of a new Italian Parliament in March, and will then be ratified...
With perfect imperturbability Pearl assured him of the worst. Jack, scion of the aristocratic family Frith-Walter, was standing for Parliament-as Labor candidate. Alan was quite as shocked as Pearl. But she wasn't leaving Jack? Certainly. Divorce? Certainly. Vanished Alan's benignity, Wordsworth's philosophy...
...privileged by custom to ask Congress for endorsement or condemnation of any course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...
Pondering well these words the Chamber presently gave the Prime Minister a vote of confidence, 325 to 251, a majority of 74. Thus the Government of France need not fear to be knifed in the back by Parliament, during the Reparations negotiations, as was Thomas Woodrow Wilson when he sought and failed to persuade Congress that the U. S. should enter the League of Nations...
...HAVE THEREFORE DECIDED HEREBY TO DECREE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF 1921 ABOLISHED. THE LAWS OF THE LAND WILL REMAIN IN FORCE UNLESS CANCELED BY MY ROYAL DECREE. NEW LAWS IN FUTURE WILL BE MADE BY THE SAME METHOD. THE PARLIAMENT ELECTED NOV. 1, 1927, IS HEREBY DISMISSED...