Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany during the last year of the World War, is probably one reason why Leftist Premier Juan Negrin mentioned the possibility of mediation before the Spanish Parliament (see below...
...Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where as a colonial agent he fought the Stamp Act, worked desperately for a reconciliation, appeared before Parliament to be baited by stupid and arrogant Tories, and was finally harried out of the country, cursing the "extreme corruption . . . in this rotten old state...
...these circumstances the British Parliament was convened for this week and democratic public opinion poised itself to dictate to Chamberlain and Daladier, as well as to Dr. Benes, a decision which had now been left...
...Majesty last week appeared before Parliament and delivered a speech from the throne regretting that rearmament is already costing The Netherlands so much that the frugal budget for 1939 is unbalanced by 145,000,000 florins ($78,300,000). Realist Queen Wilhelmina warned her subjects that Her Majesty's Government may be forced during the coming year to ask "greater sacrifices...
With danger of another World War desperately acute, and the chances good that part of it would sooner or later be fought upon Polish soil by the armies of Germany and Russia, the Warsaw Government abruptly dissolved Parliament last week and called an election for November...