Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliament's bull-of-the-week was made by famed Philip Snowden, crippled, drawn-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. He referred to former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now a mere Conservative M.P.) as "the Prime Minister," then clapped an anguished hand to his forehead as the House burst into goodnatured roars...
...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Deputies of the Sejm, Poland's Parliament, assembled nervously in Warsaw last week, for the first time since swashbuckling, eagle-eyebrowed Dictator Josef Pilsudski packed them off on a compulsory vacation seven months...
...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...
...Prince of Wales presides at dinner in London's Parliament Building for all wearers of the Victoria Cross (highest British military decoration...