Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
Coincident with these manifestations came reports of hard sledding encountered by Premier Bartel in securing the confidence of Parliament in the Pilsudski program of constitutional reform (TIME...
...President to receive power to: 1) Dissolve the Sejm (Parliament) and Senate; 2)Rule by decree when Parliament is not in session; 3) Rule by decree, in any case, until January...
...Parliament to assemble each September, under absolute compulsion to pass the budget within four months...
...organon" lasted only through the unphilosophical pomp and glory of Rome and through the dusty scholasticism of the Middle Ages to Francis Bacon (1561-1626). This energetic Elizabethan went to Cambridge at 12, to Paris as a diplomat at 16. He became a lawyer at 18, went into Parliament at 22. He could not decide between a public and speculative life, so combined the two. In 1618 he was Lord Chancellor. In 1592 he had written, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province," and had proceeded to map all the marches of that province, indicating the advances that...