Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
Plenty of howling against purchases abroad is expected from both British labor and aircraft manufacturers, and only the fact that Parliament was not in session last week saved the Air Secretary from cries of ''Buy British" from the Opposition. Anti-Chamberlain Conservative M. P.s are expected to add their complaints that foreign purchases indicate the continued failure of the Air Ministry to solve the problem by home production, as they believe possible...
...Social Credit's" domains had been eminently unsuccessful. Having elected a Liberal government for 28 of its 33 years of existence, the provincial electorate gave its Liberal Government a new five-year lease of life. Social Credit candidates were given only a thin opening wedge in the Provincial Parliament...
...gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would be approved...