Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...
British political dopesters know, of course, that the most the Liberals can hope for is to be returned with enough seats in Parliament to hold the balance of power between Conservatives and Laborites. Such was their good fortune at the last election but one; and they used their balance of power to place in office the first and only British Laborite who was ever Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME...
IRELAND Royalty Last week, Princess Mary and her tall husband, Viscount Lascelles, landed in Ire- land. Not since 1921 when King George attended the opening of the Ulster Parliament in Belfast had British royalty stepped upon Irish soil. Therefore it was of great interest to see how Princess & husband would be greeted. When first they landed at Kingstown harbor, loyal welcoming Irishmen cheered, waved flags. But others, unruly, loudly hissed, catcalled. Princess Mary & husband then motored to their castle at Portumna, on the river Shannon. Through the courtesy of the Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent...
...British and French Governments concluded their naval agreement according to the oldest formulas of secret diplomacy. Neither parliament nor public was informed, and probably not even all the members of the governments...
...give the American people what they really want in a president. "We have no need of circumlocution in our platform," stated the chief. "For instance, we promise an amalgamation of the United States and Canada, free spirits for all, tariff protection for bootleggers, an exchange of the Houses of Parliament for Memorial Hall, no more college politics, and a substitution of the Grenadler Guards for Harvard Yard cops. Our complete platform will be announced tomorrow, as well as our candidate for Vice president. I have been trying to induce Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt to bolt the Republican party and join...