Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ornate person is the Vice-Chamberlain of Great Britain. He helps with the domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean...
Just as modest was Norman J. Makin. newly appointed Speaker of the Australian Parliament. At news of his appointment he summoned reporters, announced that he would follow the precedent of previous Labor Speakers and wear neither wig nor robes in Parliament...
Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
...politics merged into one profession for "Tay Pay." Politics gave him his material, journalism his reputation. Leaving Ireland in 1870, he became subeditor of the London Daily Telegraph, was London correspondent for the New York Herald, Sun, Tribune. Ten years after his arrival in England he was in Parliament, and there he stayed. Founding political newspapers was his lifelong habit. Among them were the Star (still shining), the Sun (set), the Weekly Sun, M. A. P. (Mostly About People...
...Prince of Wales presides at dinner in London's Parliament Building for all wearers of the Victoria Cross (highest British military decoration...