Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honore Daumier spent his days wandering about Paris like a man with nothing to do. He rode the horsecars, peeked into Parliament and sat twirling his thumbs through the drone and drama of courtroom trials. He was looking for pictures. But he never brought paper or pencil, because Daumier found it impossible to draw what he saw. Like a photographic film, his mind absorbed pictures, and at night he would develop those mental images in furious and funny lithographs composed with an actor's flair for gesture and a sculptor's knowledge of form...
...political leaders the most interesting-because they hold the greatest potential influence-are Social Democrats Karl-August Fagerholm, speaker of Parliament, and Onni Peltonen, locomotive engineer by trade, who is chief of the Social Democrat parliamentary bloc and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Peltonen has led the fight for a firm policy, while the softening influence is attributed to Fagerholm, who was in Stockholm the first of the week and returned with a roaring case of jitters...
Politically, the prospect was brighter. Austria had much less to worry about on this score than Italy (where the Reds had a good chance of winning the national elections in April). In the Austrian Parliament, the Communists held only four out of 165 seats. The Reds controlled neither police, interior ministry, nor trade unions, as they had in Czechoslovakia...
Damascus became military headquarters for the Arab drive against Zionism after U.N. voted for partition. Syria's parliament last week voted a military conscription law. Tough-looking Arab warriors in battle dress and kaffiyas (headdresses), crowded the streets on leave from nearby Camp Qatana. Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren...
Bait. As propaganda against the 75% import tax on U.S. films, Hollywood was showing British audiences trailers of coming attractions that Britons won't be able to see. Cried a member of Parliament last week: "[The Government should] prevent this method of agitating for a change in our fiscal policy...