Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough non-members of the Student Union attend, the H.S.U. may withdraw to constitute the assembly a Model Parliament with resolutions of the "House" in force...
...enough non-members of the Student Union attend, the H.S.U. may withdraw to constitute the assembly a Model Parliament with resolutions of the "House" in force...
Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly, these gentlemen fell like a brick on our heads. How could we act otherwise than we have done...
Grounds were highly specious. The Republic's constitution allows the President to dissolve two Parliaments, the second dissolution being subject to review by the third Parliament. If the Cortes decides that the second dissolution was "unnecessary," the President must resign. The Leftists counted as No. 1 President Zamora's routine dissolution of the Republic's constituent assembly (not strictly a Parliament), as No. 2 last January's dissolution of the Cortes...
...Home Abroad. Last autumn Frank Buchman held a swank revival meeting in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, featuring a prize European convert, President Carl J. Hambro of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). Last winter he and some of his young men sunned themselves in Miami. An active Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank...