Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France Chamber debate trifles tell. When a venomous attack on the Government for consenting to have truck with Mr. Hoover was launched by Conservative Deputy Louis Marin, it was parried, and deflated in a twinkling by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, "Master Parliamentarian of Europe," as follows...
...everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister of France, Foreign Minister for the past six years,- "Man of Locarno," winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, author of the scheme for the United States of Europe, greatest orator and Master Parliamentarian of France, failed of election as President of the Republic last week, although only five days earlier he had obtained a vote of confidence from the Chamber 430 to 52. The defeat of Aristide Briand, not the victory of Paul Doumer, was the event of the day. France has dozens...
...Briand is the master parliamentarian of Europe. He knows when to yield even his peace policies?temporarily. As his famous 'cello voice swelled out over the agitated throng Senators were gradually lulled. In the end they cheered the Master to the echo...
...written that "for the space of an hour 'F. E.' lisped and purred an unceasing series of blistering, glittering, carefully studied and audaciously flung taunts and insults in the teeth of the triumphant majority"?with the result that the late Lord Balfour, then Britain's No. 1 Parliamentarian, crossed the House publicly to congratulate Smith M. P., and he was "made...
...Deputies is that they make a hobby of inventing calumnies, not even sparing the wives and children of those whom they hate. . . . They do not realize what honor is and dignity does not exist for them. People devoted to me have asked my permission to shoot M. Trampczynski [Parliamentarian leader] and other miscreants, and when I refused them they have committed suicide...