Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...
Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...week it was evident that Dictator Metaxas' supply of "Reds" had not given out. On one day, it was announced, 76 "Communist" agitators-75 men, one woman-were arrested and that further arrests were to follow. Among those detained were some members of the former, now defunct, Greek Parliament in which there were only 15 Communists. Before courts-martial the "Reds" were sentenced to terms of from four to six years. They will probably join some 2,000 other "comrades" being held on barren islands in the Aegean Sea by Dictator Metaxas...
...through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament, united the couple in a simple civil ceremony, since Zog is a Moslem, his new Queen a Catholic...
...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...