Word: macmanaway
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fine of ?500 for each day they do so. The old Tory gesture of spite against Tooke had come home to roost. From the present Parliament, where divisions are too close for comfort, the council decision effectively banned a pulpitless Church of Ireland clergyman named J. G. MacManaway, who was recently elected Tory M.P. from West Belfast...
Five times since his election, M.P. MacManaway has risked the ?500 fine to vote in close divisions (like that over steel nationalization) while his case was being decided. The government has announced that it will introduce special legislation so that he won't have to pay the ?2,500, but MacManaway is still indignant over his ejection...
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