Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only too well Mary Norton realized that Barden's amendments would pass on the House floor with a whoop and a holler, in the present rattlesnake mood of that chamber...
...this was not the full measure of grey-mustached Mr. Knudsen's woe. Well he knew that the present strikes were only dress rehearsals, a sort of summer barn theatre tryout of C. I. O.'s big autumn push, when the great mass of production workers (not now affected) will make sweeping new contract demands...
...Russia he generalized on the state of the world. Unlike 1938, when he was optimistic, Mr. Chamberlain this week found it "difficult to see" how the world armament race could be solved except "by war itself." But he hoped that a way might yet be found out of the "present nightmare into the sunlight of peace...
...Tory in the House (50), but he is like the majority in his widespread family connections: on Government benches, in the House of Lords, in the Cabinet, he has cousins, in-laws, distant relatives, as have the Scotts, Stanleys, Cavendishes and the Guests who can count 77 past and present M.P.s related by blood or marriage...
Most important political decree was one prolonging the life of the present Chamber of Deputies until June 1942, or two years beyond the four-year term for which the Deputies were elected in 1936. Only precedent for prolonging the Chamber occurred in 1918, during the World War, but even so there was no exact parallel. Then the Chamber, rather than the Cabinet, voted itself one more year in office...