Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intention had Franklin Roosevelt of entrusting the politically vital drafting of his farm policy to even this restricted parliament of farmers. The job of the farm leaders would be to ratify the program worked out by his New Deal experts. Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis and their aides had just three days to draft such a program while the farm leaders were assembling. Each had a pet plan and the others spent their time pointing out the legal and economic flaws in his proposals...
...extracted the royal handkerchief and blew the royal nose, a homely sound which drew first grins, then cheers. Two weeks ago the King, having forced erstwhile Dictator General George Kondylis to resign as Premier, was challenged. Newsorgans controlled by Panayoti Tsaldaris, whose henchmen hold a majority of seats in Parliament, demanded that Parliament be convened by the King to confirm or reject his restoration...
...civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...
...look astonishingly solid and permanent, Libel! concerns an action brought by one Sir Mark Loddon (Colin Clive) against a London newspaper which has made so bold as to declare that he "is not a Baronet, nor even a Loddon, and can hardly be accurately described as a Member of Parliament, as he secured his return by practicing on the electorate the same deliberate fraud he practiced on his wife." In theory the plaintiff but in fact the defendant. Lord Loddon is gravely suspected of having exchanged identities with another Briton in a German prison camp during...
...three years the chase went on. As long as Parliament was in session Deputy Besson staved off arrest by claiming parliamentary immunity. The minute the Chamber was dissolved he would escape to sanctuary in Belgium...