Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Original Situation. During the holiday recess of Parliament two schemes for the financial rehabilitation of France lay before the Finance Committee of the Chamber (TIME...
...other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament after an absence of 19 years. The situation was rendered grotesque by the fact that the "freak election" threw Premier King out of his own seat in Parliament and reduced him to sitting in the "Visitors' Gallery...
...although British traditions are dear to me.... I would far rather secede from Great Britain and remain British in spirit than remain and go on as we areepared the secret treaty of alliance between Britain and France to a point where, eight days before the War, even the British Parliament and the nation were ignorant...
...months Mexican Nationalist Representatives and Senators have been swelling out their chests in Parliament and announcing to the world in general that Mexico is a Sovereign State and can make what laws she pleases. They added that they were at work upon certain laws which would displease most foreigners a great deal. At Washington, President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have maintained a portentous silence. The present Mexican regime was recognized a short time after the death of President Harding only after a U.S.-Mexican Commission had arrived at the distinct understanding that there would be no enforcement of the fourth...
...stifling censorship has made impartial news despatches from Bulgaria rare to the point of nonexistence. Last week the cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was declared that ten Macedonian Deputies who bolted from the Tsankov coalition caused the Government's fall. Promptly Tsar Boris of Bulgaria evinced his satisfaction at the fall of Tsankov by calling upon that noted Macedonian jack of all political trades, M. Andre Liaptcheff, to form a new government...