Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close of each of her lectures she added a quiet, candid little speech, saying that her son has been a good president during his two four-year terms, and that she believes the Austrian statute against third terms ought to be waived by Parliament in his favor...
...Treaty of Nettuno between Italy and Jugoslavia was ratified by the Belgrade Parliament last week. The Treaty tends to facilitate possible Italian encroachments upon the Jugoslav province of Croatia. Therefore Croatian Deputies blocked its ratification until their leader, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated in Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, Aug. 20). Few will deny that the Treaty of Nettuno was put through secondarily by assassination and primarily as the result of threats and pressure upon the Jugoslavian Government by His Excellency Benito Mussolini...
...Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England and the other Dominions would resort to force...
...cause of Stefan Raditch's death, last week, was a bullet wound which he received on the floor of the Jugoslav Parliament (TIME, July 2), from the pistol of a Government Deputy who fired amuck among the Croatian Deputies, killing two, and wounding four, including Stefan Raditch...
...succeed Cosmo Gordon Lang as Archbishop of York when on Nov. 12 (if Parliament approves) York becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, King George V as head of the Church of England last week nominated none of the prelates whom most of his subjects expected. He preferred William Temple, 46, Bishop of Manchester since...