Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his bags all packed and his steamer passage to the U. S. engaged, Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium last week pushed through his Parliament's lower house a bill granting amnesty to those Flemish separatists still in jail or suffering loss of civic rights as a result of negotiating with the enemy during the German occupation...
...afternoon last week with the wistful air of a boy in his final day at school. As he had done so many times over so many years, one last time now he "caught the Speaker's eye," stood up to announce that the salaries of Members of Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could scarcely have picked a more felicitous topic...
Seized by the emulatory passion which has resulted in the cropping up here and there, mostly here, of a Model League of Nations, a Model Constitutional Convention, a Model Supreme Court, a Model Congress, a Model Parliament, and others, the small beginnings of what may, in time, become a great institution, the Model Yard Concert...
Next visitor from Germany to Rome was scheduled to be the Nazi War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. As though to show his northern friends-and England and France too-that he means business, II Duce last week stood over the Italian Parliament while his undersecretaries for War, Navy, and Air demanded and got appropriations totaling $38,240,000 more than last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively...
...sensible as he is imposing. His preference for living in the Amalienborg Palace, one of four identical rococo buildings which rub shoulders with shops, hotels and private houses, instead of in vast Christiansborg Palace with its golden crown looming into the sky and including the Houses of Parliament and Denmark's Supreme Court, they regard as a demonstration of good judgment rather than a gesture of humility. It makes good sense for a business king to live near his nation's place of business...