Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion as to swish Lord Plymouth, Signor Grandi left off to shout: "The Spanish Government's charges are fantastic and devoid of any foundation whatsoever! I refuse to transmit them to Rome." Chimed Prince von Bismarck, "I refuse to transmit...
...Britain's swank public schools and academic nursery of England's royalty and peerage, sat last week the newly appointed Provost of Eton, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, alumnus of Eton and Oxford, Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 26 years. Ever since Henry VI, who founded Eton in 1440, appointed one of his chief advisers to preside over the College's governing body as Provost, this office has been the most coveted and glorious...
...England, where the scholarly centers are regarded much more as communities than in this country, such a vote as this would result in the dispatch of the vote as this would result in the dispatch of the university's representatives to Parliament at London. If in the United States the universities elect no Congressmen of their own, the students still have their votes in their home electoral districts. It is to be hoped that the students will make the effort to record their vote in the Crimson poll, just as they will, or would, next November third...
...scrap of paper, wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered by a vote of "affection and confidence" wangled through the Chamber...
...gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three members of parliament as Socialists ad hoc, teased them thereafter about their synthetic extremism...