Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of Parliament urged the committee that munitions could be safer tucked away not in the mountains but in large tanks lowered to the bottom of the famed Swiss lakes, such as Geneva which is 1,000 feet deep...
...They could easily imagine Bermuda harbors dotted with ship-hotels, the inns covered with cobwebs. Last June they had a bill introduced in Bermuda's Legislature barring ship-hotels from St. George and Hamilton harbors. But when the Governor-General, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard, opening Parliament to consider the legislation, mentioned Eastern as the chief offender, the U. S. State Department protested such direct aim at U. S. shipping, and the bill died...
...Supreme Soviet (parliament) last week put aside for the first time its traditional red banners and red bunting, convened in the onetime Throne Room of the Kremlin Palace, now freshly done over in pure white...
With members of the Chamber of Deputies on holiday last week, brawny French workers lit into the legislature's garden with pick & shovel, began excavating a huge crater. In it will be constructed a bombproof shelter in which, during future air raids, the world's first subterranean parliament may some...
...Groups in many countries have asked to furnish and equip different rooms. Certain rooms will be set aside where businessmen, labor leaders, members of Parliament and other national leaders can confer...