Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight prancing horses drew a gilded coach fairytalewise from the Palace of Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred...
...good humor last week the elaborate bandage which holds his bruised arm and side in such a way as to prevent strain upon his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8). Since the bandage would have made it awkward for him to attend the King in full court regalia (see "Parliament Opens") he slipped off to his hunting centre at Melton Mowbray and amused himself among the peasantry on his estates...
...Druse Mejliss (Parliament) to be convened for the purpose of adopting the constitution and deciding whether the Jebel Druse territory (literally the Mountain of the Druses) is to be constituted as an independent nation or attached to the Syrian Federation of which Damascus is the capital...
...radio world was optimistic. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The day will come when all that is necessary to hear the King's speech to Parliament or the snort of the sacred white elephant in Siam will be to tune...
...Parliament as an institution that failed, but it was the policies of the leading parties and more than that the magnitude of the task which Germany had to face, while Russia has fallen into Bolshevism, Italy into Fascism, and France is verging on a dictatorship, Germany has succeeded in maintaining her stability and order. The chief task of the new government, Chancellor Luther has stated, will be to overcome the present economic crisis. If it succeeds there will be no dictatorship, but if it does not succeed, there might come temporary experiment of "Wartschafiadiktatur", but it would be a passing...