Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingsley Wood Britain has found its perfect Postmaster-General. A solicitor and Member of Parliament, he has all his life stood four-square for Health, Education, Housing and Insurance. By go-getting advertising for the telephone and telegraph systems, which belong to His Majesty's Post Office, he had built up by December 1933 a record profit...
...further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...
...years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...
...tram and dray Australia's citizens flocked to Australia's polls last week to elect a new Parliament. The large turnout did not mean an equally large interest in the election, but merely an effort to avoid the $10 fine imposed on Australians entitled to vote who fail...
...public opinion has reduced cautious Joe Lyons' majority in Parliament, private industry has increased his progeny at home. When the penny-pinching Tasmanian became Premier of Australia three years ago he boasted nine children. Now he has eleven...