Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate was unconvinced. One after another a half-dozen Senators arose to speak brief condemnations of Senator Bingham. Senator Gillett of Massachusetts, pleading for his Connecticut neighbor, revealed that when he was House Speaker he "frequently saw Congressmen drunk on the floor but he never "considered it necessary to censure them publicly...
Today almost the only champion of the Deputies' rights against the whims of the Dictator is Speaker of the Sejm Ignacy Daszynski, the Civilian Marshal of Poland, a onetime friend but now foe of the "Military Marshal"?Pilsudski...
...13?Seminar concerning relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants at Harvard University. Speaker: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
During the enforced adjournment of the Sejm, bold Speaker Daszynski defied the Dictator in several newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...
...order of Speaker Daszynski the Sejm recess was provisionally prolonged for three days. Most deputies scuttled to their homes...