Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amsterdam, London and New York, investment bankers waited nervously for each new report from Djakarta. Then at midweek Premier Djuanda announced that Sukarno was tired and exhausted from overwork, would leave shortly for rest and recuperation in a friendly country, presumably India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt...
Finance Minister Donald Fleming rose in Parliament to outline what he called a bold program to bolster "confidence and prosperity." He cut 100,000 taxpayers from the rolls entirely, gave his most substantial reductions to the 70% of Canadians whose taxable incomes are $2,000 a year or less; e.g., a $5,000-a-year wage earner with two children will save $64. Even though the Tories had earlier poured $150 million into higher old-age pensions and pay boosts for the armed forces and civil service, Fleming still came out in the black (predicted surplus: $80 million). For this...
...finish his education in 1931. He captained a company of Britain's Desert Rats against Rommel's troops in World War II, returned to Johannesburg in 1944 to take up a multitude of directorships. He occupied his father's old seat in the South African Parliament for ten years, was a leader in the United Party, which opposes Prime Minister Strydom's racist policies. Six years ago Sir Ernest began turning over control of the empire to Harry, made him co-managing director of Anglo American. As he was elected chairman, Harry resigned his Parliament seat...
Blended Spirit. In Launceston, Tasmania, after police caught Minister for Police Charles Aylett drinking in a bar after hours, he was fined $5 in spite of his contention that "Parliament makes laws to cover extreme cases, but Parliament always considers that the law will be administered with discretion...
Premier Djuanda, a Socialist non-party man, asked Parliament to swear in Speaker Sartono, a 56-year-old moderate Nationalist, as acting president, but a government spokesman indicated the Premier and General Nasutin actually will run things...