Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased was Premier Benito Mussolini, who has been hotly demanding recognition of Franco and stirring up Italian editors to flay "Tony"' Eden, that last week the Dictator confiscated the entire edition of an Italian humorous weekly which had mildly cartooned "Tony." As the British Parliament adjourned to Oct. 21, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wrote and privately dispatched to II Duce a "personal letter of friendship...
Cairo sizzled at a temperature of 104°-which is too hot even for Egyptians-and the Barlman or Parliament was a steaming little sweatbox, with room only for the Royal Family, Deputies, Senators and diplomats. Here last year, upon the death of Fuad I, the President of the Barlman held up for all to see the envelope into which 13 years before His Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker...
...Farouk I, recently hailed by the British press when he visited London as "The Most Perfectly Brought Up Boy In The World." Aged four he received a pretty Yorkshire widow, Mrs. Ina Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local...
...Tokyo members of the Japanese Parliament, when they anxiously inquired whether President Roosevelt was going to decide that a state of war existed in North China and invoke the Neutrality Act against both belligerents, were told by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that "apparently" such is not his intention...
...drill, sports, the life of a country gentleman, marriage, and having enough money to avoid hack work but not enough to become a dilettante. Gibbon's last blessing in disguise (for history's sake, of course, says the biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled...