Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...francs of the new loan at 4 1/2 were subscribed within eight hours. Delighted MM. Blum & Auriol four days later offered another 2,500,000,000 chunk of their 10,500,000,000 issue, "the largest peacetime loan in the history of France," and the French Parliament prepared to adjourn over Easter with broad smiles...
Hotheaded, trumpet-voiced Rexist Leon Degrelle, leader of Belgium's Catholic-Irascist Party, decided last week that he wants to be a member of Belgium's Parliament. He ordered one of the 21 Rexists in the Chamber of Deputies to resign, forced the Government to announce a by-election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold...
Visiting a Parliament of Religions in Calcutta while his monoplane underwent repairs at Nagpur, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh heard himself compared by Indian Poetess Sarojini Naidu to Buddha, Galileo and "other spiritual figures of the world," flushed scarlet...
...London, Western Clock Co., makers of Big Ben alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...
...silver only modestly well off for the 20th. Each college houses its own members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford University spent altogether some $1,290,000, roughly one-tenth of what was spent by Harvard. Oxford's income from its general endowment funds was $95,000, compared to the interest reaped each year by Harvard's $134,000,000 endowment...