Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbors were plowed with small craft filled with eager observers. The headlands were freighted with watching multitudes gathered from miles around. The Victorian Parliament adjourned for three weeks in celebration. In Melbourne, streetcar men postponed a strike until after the fleet's departure. All officials were profuse of words. Said Admiral Coontz...
...Melbourne, on the day following their arrival, 2,000 sailors paraded, and were reviewed from the steps of the Federal Parliament House by Governor General Forster, the Earl of Stradbroke and Admiral Coontz. It was reported that 150 spectators collapsed (although it was a mild day) either from excitement, or from long standing and going without lunch. The parade was halted at one point while sailors rescued spectators injured as a street canopy on which they were standing collapsed...
Australia, not without much comment, raised successfully through the House of Morgan $75,000,000. In the South African Parliament the question was debated whether or not the Union should raise a loan in Manhattan or London. Ex-Premier Smuts favored London and the debate ended inconclusively...
...budget, passed by the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, July 13), was also passed by the Senate. Parliament then adjourned for the summer recess, and for the months the Painlevè Cabinet will have a free hand in the governing of France...
...waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons; officials, including the Burgomaster and the President of the Storting (Parliament) became apoplectic with admiration and praise; Amundsen replied that he was speechless. More cheering, hymns, the national anthem...