Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic," eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes (Parliament...
...famed politicians took no open part in last week's campaign. He was André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary government forever...
...friends," cried "L'Américain," "you don't know what it is to form a ministry of 15 people.* With 15 possible members of Parliament, you're sure to have ten incompetents and five traitors. I don't know which is worse, incompetents or traitors...
...place in her guarantees?" Embarrassed President Huber had not even a chance to take up the charge that was outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired...
...takes place, steps should be taken to prevent all political activities at Harvard from being pulled down at the same time. The Liberal Club trust fund should be removed from a group which has strayed so far from what the Club originally stood for, and an independent, non-partisan Parliament under responsible leadership should be established in its place. Only in such a body can the real political beliefs of Harvard students find adequate means of expression...