Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more or less delirious Spanish mobsters and political ex-convicts paraded around, brandishing plain red flags, singing the Internationale and shouting vaguely "Long Live Russia...
...asked to be chosen Prime Minister of Prussia while I was Chancellor, because as Prime Minister I could not be dismissed by the Reich President without consent of the Prussian Parliament. However, as Chancellor, the President could dismiss me," declared Bruening...
...Spain's long-heralded general election for a new Cortes (Parliament) last week, voters' choices were three. The Left parties, united by the suppression of the October 1934 Socialist Revolution (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), offered "Revolution," meaning a proletarian dictatorship and nationalization of land & banks. The Right parties, counter-united under Catholic Leader Jose Maria Gil Robles, offered "Anti-Revolution," meaning, to the women, suppression of divorce; to the churchmen, support of the Catholic Church in Spain; to the Monarchists, the Monarchy. Finally Premier Manuel Portela Valladares' Centrist Government offered "Neutrality," qualified by political alliance with...
...main point must be to make the organization like a Parliament, where a difference of opinion does not mean resignation by a minority, where filibustering is not permitted, and where every man with a political interest may find a place to air his views, exchange ideas, learn parliamentary procedure, and get some practice in public speaking. The practical details, such as committees of investigation with reports; the different forms of meeting, whether with some outside distinguished speaker, or merely in debate form between members; the passing of majority and minority motions; the consideration of college and educational problems as well...
...fall into the sort of bad reputation which causes not healthy battle, but contemptuous neglect. An executive council largely made up of recognized student leaders, such as the Presidents of the Student Council and of Phillips Brooks House, would seem the best assurance that the organization would remain a parliament in which each individual and each group could fight without breaking up the whole...