Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
...through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon she was seized...
Debate on the speech continued all week. It was flayed as "most meagre" by James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Opposition and onetime Prime Minister, who declared that Parliament was "in for a long holiday," since the Government had declined to deal with the critical problems of the coal and other vital industries...
Thereafter the Commons drifted into general debate, the Conservatives showing their continued whip hand by putting through various routine motions by majorities of more than two to one. That the Government does not propose, in these circumstances, to hold a general election until the present term of Parliament expires, next year, was positively and gratuitously asserted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...
...Majesty calls Dr. Ninko Peritch, President of the Narodna Skupstina (Parliament), to negotiate among all parties with intent to evolve a broad coalition Cabinet. Dr. Paritch is of the so-called "Radical" party-actually reactionary and ultra Serbian...