Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Alice has wandered, round-eyed and innocent, into the Wonderland of Westminster. . . . The truth is that Mr. Baldwin is unintelligible to the politician because he is the least politically minded person who has ever reached great office. . . . Like Diocletian, he would be happier among his cabbages than in Parliament...
...Today, in the prime of life . . . he is easily the foremost figure in Parliament. . . . He emerges today from No. 11, Downing Street, and such is his buoyancy and tenacity of grip upon the lifeboat of office that I see no reason why he should not one day emerge from...
...William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs: "When he first appeared upon the stage, as plain Mr. Hicks ?the Joynson is an accretion from his marriage?he seems to have had painful tendencies of a Radical order and sat in the Highbury Parliament which met at the Highbury Athenaeum in North London as Radical member for Peterborough. . . . He came first into prominence as a crusading Evangelical...
...Ferdinand of Rumania: "A pleasant Christmas gift to me this year, in the midst of my troubles with cancer, fire (TIME, Dec. 20) and disputes about succession to the throne, was Parliament's increase of my civil list, or yearly stipend from $140,000 to $200,000.*; My five-year-old grandson, Crown Prince Michel, had his allowance increased to $30,000. At the same time $175,000 was appropriated for restoration of the royal palace wing that was recently burned. Commentators said I would find my increased funds useful for doctor's bills and for certain expenses...
...Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...