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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliament's bull-of-the-week was made by famed Philip Snowden, crippled, drawn-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. He referred to former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now a mere Conservative M.P.) as "the Prime Minister," then clapped an anguished hand to his forehead as the House burst into goodnatured roars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Deputies of the Sejm, Poland's Parliament, assembled nervously in Warsaw last week, for the first time since swashbuckling, eagle-eyebrowed Dictator Josef Pilsudski packed them off on a compulsory vacation seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski v. Daszynski | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Black Jalander | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Prince of Wales presides at dinner in London's Parliament Building for all wearers of the Victoria Cross (highest British military decoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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