Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alighting at Leinster House (Parliament), His Excellency soon stood respectfully in the presence of Free State Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy who solemnly administered the Governor General's oath of office in both English and Gaelic. Thereafter unassuming Governor & Mrs. Mc-Neill quietly took up their residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the Vice-regal Lodge...
...Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose in Parliament to interpolate the Government upon its intentions...
Explaining this remark, Rennie Smith, a British Labor member of Parliament and also Directing Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, said in an interview yesterday that Great Britain had already begun to disarm, and that it would not be directly concerned with America's way of handling the problem...
...Majesty's Opposition. So marked was the political calm amid which Parliament assembled, last week, that attention focused on one man, merely because his eminence is new. He is Richard Bedford Bennett, 57, full throated as a singing thrush. Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost...
From the thrush throat of Leader Bennett loomed more compliments, then a sturdy statement, a promise: "By my election to an office that has statutory recognition as part of the machinery of Parliament and of government, I recognize that I have assumed grave responsibilities. ... I shall do my very best...