Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valiant fight, Mindszenty lost on the school issue last week. The Hungarian Parliament declared the parochial schools nationalized. Catholics could not alter the official decree, but they had ways of retorting. Across the land, at the cardinal's order, church bells tolled a 15-minute requiem. In Budapest (before the police broke up their demonstration) women shouted: "Wait till September-our children will be taught at home...
Said an opposition member of Parliament: "The Nationalists have taken the first step in the destruction of the democratic system by destroying freedom from fear...
...Benito Mussolini (TIME, April 7, 1947). Audisio rushed up to Tomba, cried: "If you are a gentleman, come outside in the garden." Tomba declined, but the fracas became a free-for-all; even a Communist woman deputy, Laura Diaz (known to her admirers as the "Joan Crawford of Parliament"), joined in, whacking at bearded Christian Democrats. Contestants ripped out stenographers' desks, used them as clubs. Three deputies had to be treated for injuries. It was the worst riot in the loo-year history of Parliament...
...days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed his seat in Parliament. His contribution to last February's Communist coup was vital: he had organized and armed the factory "action...
Right-Winger Dezso Sulyok; and Father Bela Varga, once Speaker of Hungary's Parliament...