Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately after the opening of Parliament last fortnight, Distant Cousin Baldwin and Distant Cousin MacDonald had the following amicable exchange...
Until the Labor Party first made itself felt, members of Parliament served without regular government salary. A hardship to many, the rule of unsalaried M. P.'s was popular with tradition-loving Britons who felt that, come what might, Britain would always be governed by Gentlemen...
...members of Parliament were granted a salary of ?400 ($2,000).† In the Conservative government of Stanley Baldwin., largely a government of Gentlemen, the question of cabinet salaries was not important. To the Labor government of Ramsay MacDonald it is most important indeed. When they were in power five years ago, the Labor ministers pooled their salaries to help out the most needy among them. And last week Prime Minister MacDonald, whose first London job, at 19, earned him $2.40 a week for addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club, announced in the Commons, in his capacity as First...
While the British Parliament opened and argued, His Majesty the King-Emperor returned in triumph to London. Still wan and droop-shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...
Impartial observers considered the Hamaguchi cabinet the ablest since 1921. But roaring Shishi, like grave Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, has a minority government. Japan's parliament seats are divided as follows...