Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most vital French news event of last week occurred in England, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon quietly asked of Parliament, and very shortly was granted, leave to add a billion dollars (?200,000,000) to the Exchange Equalization Fund of $750,000,000 with which John Bull has been operating in the world's money markets. He revealed that last March 30 the Fund possessed 26.674,000 oz. of fine gold, or $933,590,000 worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth...
...sent to Washington last winter by Blum in the forlorn hope that he could wangle big money out of the New Deal. He rushed home last week aboard the Queen Alary, and immediately upon reaching Paris suspended gold payments by the Bank of France until he could go before Parliament to get plenary financial powers...
...last have no Cabinet seats. At the emergency session it was the Radical Socialists and Socialists who fell to quarreling, with luckless Premier Blum fluttering between them in his accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide what should be done, and do it by decree...
High in the clock tower of the British Houses of Parliament, Big Ben pealed three changes. It was 3 :45 p. m., the hour when London businessmen lick their lips and wonder if the office boy will never come with...
After mature deliberation Sir Stanley Baldwin, K. G. announced that his new title would be the Earl Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale and not Bewdley as most Britons had expected. Bewdley, the district in Worcestershire which Stanley Baldwin represented continuously in Parliament since 1908, was closely connected in the minds of British cartoonists with the pigs Squire Baldwin has long raised there. To bear the courtesy title of Viscount Corvedale at once is Earl Baldwin's Laborite Son Oliver who remains, until his father's death, eligible for the House of Commons...