Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theoretically supreme and sovereign is the Congress of the Nationalist Party. This is by no means a democratically elected body. Its members represent the Party alone, much as the new Italian Parliament will represent not the "People" but the Fascist Party...
...occasion was Austria's presidential election. Not the People but Parliament would ballot. Thus far the new Republic of Austria had had only one President, beloved Dr. Michael Hainisch, he of the white Santa Claus whiskers and ruddy cheeks, nose. So great is the popularity of Dr. Hainisch and his pet prize cow, Bella (TIME, April 2), that recently the Austrian Government felt obliged to issue an official communiqué scotching false rumors that Bella had died...
...Williams of the New York Times picturesquely described the ensuing confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
...expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting the election by only 94 votes of Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, an unimportant figure, though Speaker of Parliament...
Frenchmen naturally received the Cahill Report, last week, with marked distaste. They do not like to appear too prosperous. Their Parliament has not yet ratified the Franco-U.S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926); and their statesmen like to repeat that France is too poor to pay. Also negotiations are about to begin for the purpose of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). France wishes her statesmen to attend these solely on the basis that there shall be no scaling down of the reparations owed by Germany to War-devastated and impoverished France...