Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Athenian motorbus chauffeurs adjusted their motors to back-fire last week, then drove for several hours around and around the Houses of Parliament, creating a potent, earsplitting, staccato...
This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...
Gleaming, silent, a grey limousine crossed the huge square before the House of Parliament at Budapest last week, and drew up at the massive portal. A flunkey opened the door and out stepped a man clad all in black. Four blazing diamond brooches held in place the sole ornament of his costume, a green sash across his breast. He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante...
...barbaric splendor beloved of Magyars, opened last week the newly constituted Hungarian Upper House (TIME, Nov. 29). Not since World War days has such magnificence dazzled at Budapest. In the galleries sat the Habsburg Archduchesses, ablaze with gems. They even more than the men, hoped that the new Hungarian Parliament would take up at last the question of who shall sit upon the Throne of Hungary, now held by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Brusque, sailor-like, Admiral Horthy opened Parliament last week with a short speech, crisp, noncommittal...
...gift of Richard Teller Crane Jr., in memory of his father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...