Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great gaunt figure of Cecil Rhodes was again evoked in the British Parliament last week when a committee of the House of Lords passed a bill affecting the selection of U. S. Rhodes scholars...
...reason of Death, he will issue a writ for the holding of a by-election to fill the vacant seat. Last week five such by-elections were held, although the five M.P.'s elected will hold their seats for less than two months, namely until May 10, when Parliament will be dissolved for a General Election. Therefore when two more M. P.'s suddenly died, the party chieftains got together, last week, and agreed that nobody would call the attention of "Mr. Speaker" to these two particular empty seats...
...Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament) dissolved the union with Sweden, elected Prince Christian of Denmark King of Norway, proclaimed him "King Haakon VII"-thus reviving the traditions of the ancient and extinct native royal line of Norway-and finally declared the present dynasty hereditary. To Oslo with King Haakon VII came the Princess...
Died. Right Hon. Stephen Walsh, 70, of Wigan, England, Secretary of War in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, longtime Laborite Member of Parliament; in Wigan...
Solemnly at last the Parliament of the Union of South Africa voted on General Hertzog's bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant smile twisted the lips of General Smuts. He had won this preliminary skirmish, but the real dogfight will be the General Election, now scheduled for next June...