Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private bill, presented by a Labor member, was defeated in its first reading by a majority of 67. In his election campaign, Premier Baldwin had promised to grant the franchise to women on equal terms with men.† This was cited in defense of the bill, but the Government, through the mouth of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, stated that it was not yet prepared to grant the reform. The Prime Minister's pledge was, however, confirmed...
...item in the Home Secretary's estimates moved ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to intense indignation. The item was a matter of about $5,500,000 for a special grant to the Government of Northern Ireland to help defray the expenses of the special constabulary. Mr. Snowden declared that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods...
...Socialist charges. In spite of numerous interruptions and fierce yells, he ably defended the Government's action, declared that the money had been disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...
Beside being famous for her Nurmi, Finland was the first country in the world to grant suffrage to women; this was done in 1907 without any agitation on the part of the females...
...more lustily for being mothered by a shout. He spoke at the 49th anniversary of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, telling the University that, in his opinion, all undergraduate courses should be dropped, that admission be limited to those prepared to do advanced work, that the university cease to grant the bachelor's degree, give only M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s. Said...