Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reputedly the cabinet approved in camera last week for early submission to Parliament, a bill providing that in a three-cornered contest for a parliamentary seat wherein no candidate has an absolute majority the re-vote shall be only on the two leaders in the original polling...
...MISS PANKHURST FINDS NO THRILL" remarked the press. In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly. Parliament was soon expected to pass legislation that would give the vote to all women of 21 or more in England. Suffragist Pankhurst said: "It would have been the Seventh Heaven of delight years ago if this had come to pass. But I have changed since then. Now ... I know we can make the same mistakes...
...England, however, when Parliament proposes a law, the law is a law and remains a law, until Parliament changes it. The Parliament, even if it is controlled by the Prime Minister and his confreres seems more representative than the United States Supreme Court...
...Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some say that he disappointed his ancestors. He was a Tory who could see two sides to every question. In a time of domestic crisis, he took the helm, taxed incomes, lowered the tariff, wiped...
Died. President Jan Tschakste, 67, first president of Latvia (unanimously elected in 1922, by the first Latvian parliament, re-elected in 1925 for a second term of three years); in Riga, Latvia...