Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that the British rubber monopoly would be terminated in November (see p. 15). Leader Tilson said: "I think the Secretary of Commerce is due the thanks and gratitude of the people of the entire country...
...Italian nation virtually was at civil war. Railways, postal and telegraphic services . . . were hopelessly disorganized. Industry had been paralyzed for several years by revolutionary strikes. The government had lost all effective authority. Parliament was a feeble confusion of conflicting cliques...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...
Accordingly Mustafa Nahass Pasha has been suffered to become Prime Minister, as an experiment. Urged by his Nationalist convictions, he went before Parliament with the following program: 1) Rejection of the treaty of "alliance" in its present form; 2) Maintenance in the Sudan of Egyptian rights which are now being quietly usurped by Britain; 3) Determination to "admit of no encroachment upon the independence, honor, or sovereignty of Egypt...
After having been before Parliament for seven years, the Social Insurance Bill was finally passed, last week, in time to win votes in the general election scheduled for this Spring...