Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This extravagant denouement to the Pilsudski revolution (TIME, May 24 et seq.) followed Marshal Pilsudski's refusal of the presidency, to which Parliament elected him (TIME, June 7), and his curt intimation to the astonished Deputies that they had best elect "honest Ignatz Moscicki," heretofore a total political nobody, but an intimate of Pilsudski...
...Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...
...Scope and Purpose of Legal Research," Dean Pound said: "In an age of expanding trade the operations of business could not be confined by the straight jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until a new general election can be held...
...wise and venerable representatives of Islam who debated these momentous issues were given pause by the following considerations: 1) In 1922 the Turkish Parliament abolished the Sultanate, deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI and conferred the Califate upon his cousin, Prince Abdul Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed...