Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responding to an interpellation in the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier rapped out: "I do not propose ratification of the [Franco-British and Franco-U. S.] debt-funding accords, because I expect to get better terms; and because Parliament certainly would not agree to bind the country for the proposed term of 62 years...
...Cortes (Parliament) has not sat since 1923 because Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera has prevented King Alfonso XIII from performing his Constitutional duty to convene the Cortes...
This ominous phrase, simplified, means, explained II Duce, that with-in the next twelvemonth the present Chamber of Deputies will be replaced by a parliament elected from the "corporations" or committees which alone now represent in Italy the classes of employers and employed (TIME...
Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
...Parents. His father, the late Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh of Minnesota, was born in Stockholm, the son of a member of the Swedish Parliament. Congressman Lindbergh was progressively a Republican, a "Bull Moose," a Farmer-Laborite. In Washington he was known as "the early bird of Congress...