Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to split or stampede blocks and groups. As a keen, go-getting logician fond of dates and statistics, M. Tardieu knew that he could not depend on himself to kindle and fire the Deputies. He left the ignition to great Aristide Briand, Europe's supreme Parliamentarian...
...duped!" he raged to reporters. "The cagy old parliamentarian betrayed me ?and they call him the Apostle of Peace! Zut! This Aristide Briand?...
...ever been British Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald. Thus, when onetime Page Ponsonby released his report in 192 closely packed and reasoned pages, he revealed the insight of one who has been behind the British scenes, both before and after the War, and the weighted judgment of a Parliamentarian 16 years in the House. Briefly, Laborite Ponsonby seeks to destroy at least a portion of "the weapon of falsehood" forged by Allied propagandists during the War, and more especially to unmask the more notorious lies spread by "the British official propaganda department at Crewe House under Lord Northcliffe." For good...
...executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...