Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp, determined, confident fashion, Premier Edouard Daladier took his new Cabinet of moderate Left statesmen before Parliament last week, asked a free hand to rule by decree until July 31. This was asking much more than ousted Socialist Premier Léon Blum was refused fortnight ago when his Popular Front Cabinet cracked up. The new Premier was banking last week on a growing realization that the majority of public opinion in France has shifted from the Left part way to the Centre. The disgruntled Left, conscious of their weakened position but eager that it should receive no advertisement last...
Egypt's 18-year-old King Farouk last week drove through Cairo streets, sardine-packed with cheering, cotton-robed fellaheen to open the first Parliament elected since his Coronation. Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...
...Throne, Farouk gazed on a Chamber far more amenable to his will than the one he inherited on his Coronation. Although above party politics according to the Constitution, the ambitious boy-King has booted out the Premier of the majority Wafdist (nationalist) Party, Mustafa Nahas Pasha, and dissolved the Parliament. The Wafd, torn by internal dissension, split into two groups, a Nahas Pasha bloc and the insurgents who call themselves Saadists or "true Wafdists...
Three weeks ago Farouk held elections for a new Parliament. Undoubtedly popular with the people, Farouk nevertheless faced the fact that the fellaheen, most of whom are illiterate, had for years voted for the Wafdists, who passed out the bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were...
Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...