Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dopesters figure that the new cabinet will be supported by 320 deputies of the Right and Centre in a Parliament of 612. The Sacred Union (nominally of all parties) commanded 427 votes...
...Majesty strode to the Throne. His train stretched behind him, his crown flashed. Then he turned and faced his Ministers and the Lords of his Realm. The Commons were summoned and appeared. All was in readiness for the King to open Parliament with his Speech from the Throne...
Smugly confident, General Hertzog hinted that he might ask the King-Emperor's brother-in-law to dissolve the Dominion Parliament and call a general election as early as next January, perhaps even before Christmas...
...Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably but did not say no. French observers hailed suave, expert, experienced Senator Cheron as just the man to wangle the budget through Parliament by Christmas in the absence of his chief...
...Ours is the triumph of Constitutionalism over Despotism. We shall immediately call for the dissolution of Parliament and hold new, honest elections...