Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek Parliament raised him above common strife by creating him in 1919, "Grand Admiral for life." Thus bedizened with a not easily tarnishable prestige the old Admiral continues to serve his country as an official adornment of certified quality...
Thus with pious invocation Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera formally proclaimed last week that a plebiscite would at once be held throughout Spain to determine whether the people desire to elect a Cortes* (Parliament) or to continue under the De Rivera dictature. Despatches gave the impression that the whole machinery of the Patriotic Union, a party formed by the Dictator, will be used to drum up plebiscite votes for the continuance of the present regime...
President Calles spoke for three hours after formally opening the Mexican Parliament which will continue in session until the first of the year. Beginning his speech with a booming "Citizens, Senators, Deputies!" the President turned at once to the foreign relations of Mexico and gladdened Wall Street by a guarded admission that the anti-foreign Mexican Land and Oil Laws (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) may eventually be modified "if in practice the Mexican government finds that the application of these laws is not in accord with the policy which has guided the attitude and aims of Mexico...
...King-Emperor, apparently convinced that peace was not in sight, summoned Parliament to reassemble long enough to ratify an extension of the Emergency Power Act. The House of Commons under Premier Baldwin's firm hand, complied by a vote of 332 to 91. Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones became so excited that he had to be suspended again...
General Kondylis promised-as did General Pangalos when he seized power (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.)-that elections will shortly be held. At present Greece has no Parliament, and but slim chances that the new electoral promises will be kept better than the old ones which were not kept at all. At London, King George II, a first cousin once removed of George V of Britain, declared: "We have no personal desire for the throne of Greece, but if it is for the good of our country, then we are willing to return at any time...