Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power of the House of Lords. As a result the Cabinet met in secret session, to consider how the proposal-after having existed only a week-might best be scrapped...
Next morning Colonial Secretary Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery announced to the House of Commons amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" that the bill will not be introduced in anything like its proposed form. Members of Parliament promptly dubbed it "dead...
...Passed by a majority of 215 the Conservative Government's highly reactionary Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 30), drafted to prevent the recurrence of the British General Strike (TIME...
Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...
...Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July 19), had been consistent but not brilliant. Harrison ("Jimmie") Johnston, the amateur who worried the professionals for half...