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Word: owne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Room for the Hon. Members? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

No other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Room for the Hon. Members? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Room for the Hon. Members? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Already at least two of the twelve are asking. The states of Senegal and Sudan,*which last April joined as a new entity called the Federation of Mali, now want to have their own diplomatic delegation at the U.N. and elsewhere, instead of letting France speak for them. They still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH COMMUNITY: Organized Friendship | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In its usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Canceled Stamps | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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