Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the French Chamber who returned to Paris after being guests at the Leftist Parliament session reported that the Leftists had just arrested 2.000 political opponents in Barcelona suspected of conspiring for a coup...
...believed that civil war was inevitable ever since the February elections gave the Rightist parties a popular vote of 4,696,000 to the Leftists' 4,356,000, but, owing to Spain's peculiar electoral system, gave the Leftists control of the Government with 296 seats in Parliament to the Rightists' 177. The Rightists correctly assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain's regular Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor...
Francisco Franco, El Caudillo ("The Chief") of Spain's Rightist Government which has functioned as a military Junta (TIME, May 3), last week assumed the title of President and formed a Cabinet. The President made no provision for elections or a parliament (see above), and the new Cabinet consists almost entirely of members of the old Junta, representatives in their own persons of Rightist political groups...
...pools, aided by well-advertised slogans like "You can make a fortune for a penny," have grown each year until today it is reckoned that pool coupons go to three out of every four people in England. By last week this parasitic phenomenon had caused so much alarm that Parliament was getting ready to do something about...
What alarmed Parliament were such statistics as these, widely circulated in the British press: From 1934 to 1937 the turnover from football pools rose from ?10,000,000 to ?40,000,000. Mathematical odds against the correct forecast (first prize) are estimated as high as 14,000,000-to-1. Still, there is always that lucky penny that won ?19,000, the sixpence that brought ?30,780. A pool promoter's net profit may run up to ?2,000,000 a season...