Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what does the Labor party mean to England". Organized about 20 years ago, it has become his Majesty's official opposition in Parliament, holding 144 seats. It Lord Baldwin falls to retain his majority tomorrow and the Conservative Party loses power, Ramsey McDonald, leader of the Labor Party, will probably be called upon to organize a cabinet. That McDonald will do this, I very much doubt, for it is the desire of the Labor Party not to take control of affairs until it controls an actual majority in the House. A coalition government is deemed undesirable," further stated Mr. Blanshard...
...McDonald the leaders of the Party. Yet, these two never worked up through the ranks of labor but reached their conclusions and convictions as a result of thought. When you find such men as Arnold Bennett and Thomas Hardy voting the labor ticket, or H. G. Wells running for Parliament from Oxford University on the labor ticket, you can see that the Labor Party is not limited to the working classes only...
...Edmund Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sat a 'Fourth Estate' more important far than they all."? Heroes and Hero Worship (Carlyle...
Thus ends a two-year debate in the French chambers of Parliament. The old teaching won; but advocates of domestic science and manual training have entered, as it were, a pin point...
...upheld by 74 members of the old Parliament, who were loud in condemnation of Marshal Tsao-Kun's bribery and corruption...