Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt...
...harried Minister explained what he had meant by "No." To workmen occupying factories illegally, he said, the Government would first send the local mayor to call them out, then a labor union delegate, then the local member of Parliament, and finally, police without bayonets to shoo strikers out "with care." Placated Communist Thorez thereupon threw his weight back to the Popular Front, saying. "The workers must know how to end strikes...
Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often...
...convened, the Chinese Parliament faced challenging demands from South-west China that the Nanking Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General...
...Tithe Bill," as it is called by 300,000 English tithe-payers. Their loudly vocal organization at once announced that they will petition King Edward to refuse his signature-a refusal which would upset the whole British theory that the King must do as Parliament votes and the Cabinet advises...