Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...
...months ago Gustave Sap rose in Belgium's Parliament and pointed out that though Premier van Zeeland had tendered his resignation from the directorate of the National Bank of Belgium, the Bank still listed him as a vice governor, had not chosen a successor. Broadly he hinted that Paul van Zeeland was still accepting his $20,400 salary as a bank official, in addition to his much smaller salary as Premier of Belgium.* Furious, Premier van Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic...
...anticipation of the usual July weather, government officials last January, decided that the Parliament Hall at Cairo would be air conditioned in time for the ascendency of King Farouk. American-trained engineers in Egypt selected the necessary equipment which was rushed from this country and placed in operation just in time for the regal rites. This was confirmed by cable on the day of the event...
Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
...force the attackers higher, thus impairing their marksmanship. This year, therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long...