Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...great was the excitement on Capitol Hill that but scant attention was paid to the conventionally innocuous "Speech from the Throne" by Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy, with which Parliament was formally opened. All ears strained instead toward the House...
This status quo was established by the Hungarian Parliament, after Hungary had suffered as the "Republic" of which Count Karolyi was President (Nov. 1918 to March, 1919) and endured the "Soviet Government" of Bela Kun (March...
...commoner with Zyzis. In 1919 he wrote a similar epistle, and he is thought to have written many before and since. What startled the world was that this time King Ferdinand, instead of hushing up the offer of abdication, rushed it through the Crown Council and ordered the Roumanian Parliament to convene for the purpose of declaring Carol's baby son, Michel, the Crown Prince...