Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Bull is a Privy Councilor of His Majesty, a member of Parliament, and senior partner of the respected firm of Bull & Bull, Solicitors...
...woman and a slim young person from the U. S. The majority of Chang's wives and concubines are Chinese, but there are two Opposition factions made up of Japanese and Russians. Of late Dictator Chang is said to have paid more attention to opium than to his parliament of wives...
...Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them...
...Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia. The peasants were responding to the pied piping of their great political champion, Dr. Juliu Maniu, not long since a peasant himself. They know, for he has told them, that the aristocratic cabinet at Bucharest derives its power from a parliament elected by corruption and police: bullying of the voters. Therefore the trudgers were converging upon Alba Julia to take a great oath and hurl a potent warning at the Prime Minister of Rumania; massive, aristocratic, inflexible Vintila Bratiano, whose great political family has dominated Rumania for two decades...
...considering this question," said Chief Justice Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin, urbanely, "the Court was, of course, in no way concerned with the desirability or undesirability of the presence of women in the Senate. . . . Should Parliament eventually determine to make provision for women Senators, it will be done by the use of language very different from that to be found in the present...