Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filibustering in the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa defeated for the time being, last week, a bill which would have empowered the (Canadian) Bell Telephone Co. to increase its capitalization from...
...will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament...
Swiftly the substance of these ideas was carried out. His Majesty went before the Majlis (Parliament) and presented to that assembly as Regent the boy, Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. The lad, trained to drill and play war games from infancy, made a trim, soldierly appearance. The Majlis cheered him and he held his head high. But afterwards his nether lip trembled as his father bade him goodbye and set forth, jauntily, to lead an army into Luristan...
...Parliament is nothing more than an organ to cheat the people. We must therefore form our own Parliament of laborers, farmers and the poorer classes...
John Buchan according to the jacket, is the "greatest romancer since Stevenson," and is a veritable jack-of-all trades, combining the activities of "lawyer, soldier, business man, novelist, historian, essayist, poet, and member of the parliament." At any rate, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Buchan is an intelligent man of considerable good taste, shrewdness, and literary ability. In "The Half-Hearted", there is nothing to make the reader believe the contrary...