Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expropriating (with pay) the large estates in favor of the peasants, by creating a parliament in which every labor, professional and religious group is represented, and by openly defying the bloody plans of Hitler and Stalin, Rumania gained certain prestige in the minds of thinking...
Into the highceilinged, ornamental, gilt-walled hall of the Hungarian Parliament's Lower Chamber walked surefootedly one day last week a young, handsome aristocratic statesman exuding confidence. He was Count Stephan Csáky, Hungary's Foreign Minister; before him were 262 uniformed deputies, waiting expectantly to hear a scheduled speech on foreign relations...
...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
...Churchill made his weekly speech about the effectiveness of the effective British blockade of Germany's munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...