Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This high-handed gentleman, who controls his Parliament by locking its doors or rearranging its calendar whenever criticism is attempted, is on his way to Geneva to present his country's claims in the Lithuanian dispute. This dispute arose seven years ago when without good reason Polish forces marched into Lithuania and seized the capital, Vilna, and occupied a good portion of that country. Since then the inhabitants have been energetically kept in hand and revolutions have been continually fomented against the government which controls what is left of Lithuania...
Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
Nevertheless, it was mooted that Signer Mussolini would have something to say on the Franco-Jugoslav treaty when Parliament convenes next month, and that something, all conceded, would be quite up to Il Duce's usual pyrotechnical verbiage...
Immediately after the trial the Government promulgated a law, passed by both houses of Parliament, increasing the penalties for those attempting to overthrow the throne or government or in any way attempting to interfere with the constitutional rights of succession...
From Newport, Wales, to London is roughly 200 miles by road, and by road a small army of 400 unemployed miners, old men with sticks and young men with fresh complexions, set out last week to present a petition "in boots" to Parliament calling attention to the suffering and distress in the Welsh coal mines...