Word: parliamentarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stavisky burglary; and the turn of international affairs has convinced the vast indefinite body of patriots that France has quite noticeably lost prestige on the Continent. Papa, Doumergue's government is a stop-gap which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority...
...Clark is the son of a famed father. While the late great Champ Clark was Speaker, young Bennett practically grew up in the House of Representatives. Speaker Clark advised him to be a Missouri farmer. Instead he studied law in Washington, served four years under his father as House parliamentarian. In 1917 he went to War, rose to a colonelcy in the A. E. F. As much to Col. Clark as to any other man has gone credit for the initiation of the American Legion in Paris shortly after the Armistice. Back in St. Louis he practiced law, married, became...
Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting on rules, practices and precedents. On the side he studied law, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1895. In 1896 his father died and he, aged 26, was elected to serve out his father's unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge...
CHAMBERLAIN stands first for Birmingham's late, great "Old Joe," a hawk-nosed, bemonocled power in and behind several Victorian cabinets (though never Prime Minister). This elegant Parliamentarian whose daily orchid fascinated the House, lost the first two of his three wives after they bore him respectively...
...Paris the heart of Aristide Briand, Europe's Great Pacifier, failed last week. A few days before what would have been his 70th birthday he died in his small bachelor home. He had been eleven times Premier of France. Called the Master Parliamentarian of Europe, he was also Europe's foremost orator. To the very end, his famed "cello voice" could rouse the French Chamber or Senate to tempests and transports of emotion?but he knew to a nicety how few were his friends...