Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even more important, the Premier had had the Governor General sign an order dissolving the 15th Canadian Parliament. He did so according to his own account, because the country was faced with four new issues which could be disposed of only by a new parliament and a party with a substantial majority in the House. The four issues are: 1) transportation-plans for a combination in ocean carrying; 2) immigration undertaking of a vigorous distributing policy; 3) reduction of taxation; 4) senate reform-making the senate elective instead of appointive and depriving it of all but a suspensory veto...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
...Parliament reassembled at Teheran after the summer recess. Promptly members broke into fist fighting and riots. The trouble started when a member of the minority party was offered the post of Minister of Justice...
Bankers, brokers, bookies, artisans, ladies of society, "a well-known rowing champion" and two members of Parliament last week joined a club which purposes to provide its members with instruction in flying-the London Aero Club. Some because they were bored, some because they were eager, the rowing champion because he was tired of rowing, the members of Parliament because they were tired of riding in trains to visit their constituents and purposed to drive their own planes in the future, the ladies because they were tired of everything-all wanted to learn to fly. The club began with several...
Married. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 63, onetime (1913-14) Lord Mayor of London, now Member of Parliament for the city of London, and Mrs. Coysgarn Sim; in London. His first wife died last year...