Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been almost all work and fierce fighting. A child of Manchester's slums, she put herself through Manchester University, championed woman suffrage and union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor Party, which elected her to Parliament in 1924. There, shrill-voiced but quick-witted, she was in frequent clashes with such debating stalwarts as Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Lord Woolton (once her schoolteacher...
...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
...Police, Communications, and Censorship) have managed to purge Hungary's conservative army command by accusing it of plotting a "democratic military dictatorship," whatever that may be. The generals were soon joined in jail by prominent members of the Christian Small Holders Party, which has a majority (60%) in Parliament and crushingly defeated the Communists at the last elections (TIME...
Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland...
...Gloom Week in Britain. The Labor Government got around to telling the people some of the hard facts of their economic life. On the eve of Parliament's reassembly it issued a White Paper, chocked with black news. Britain's position was "extremely serious." The U.S. and Canadian loans "only give us a short breathing space." The country was "still running into debt Abroad." In 1946 its imports exceeded exports by $1,312,000,000. Its manpower shortage was grave: 500,000 to 700,000 more workers were needed in export industries if the trade balance...