Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
...think I can help make it easier for women and men, especially for the young, I will go there if I am sent there. But, touched as I am by Lady Astor's offer to give me her seat, I must decline, because if I go to Parliament I must win my seat...
...with international suspicion: 1) Entered an English Presbyterian theological college, after announcing his conversion from Judaism to Christianity; 2) Became a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) Secretary to B. Seebohm Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a forgery committed two years earlier...
...very moment when she needed all her prestige in the extraordinary session of the League at Geneva. (See LEAGUE.) They repudiated both Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer, who have labored since the first of the year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...Superstition?" is the subject of the address at the public meeting of the Ethical Society tomorrow at 11 o'clock at 3 Joy Street,--just west of the State House, the Speaker, John Langdon-Davies, has been a scholar in history at Oxford, and Labor party candidate for parliament. He has given much time to worker's education. He has just published "The New Age of Faith",--a study of the question, Can science save society...