Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of assuring himself that he is still The Boss is abjectly to resign "all my offices," did so again last week and was expected to resign at least once more. This was good Chinese tactics since the often-postponed Kuomintang Central Executive Committee- roughly corresponding to a Chinese parliament or assembly -was at last meeting in Nanking and it behooved the Dictator to intimate politely that he is a miserable worm, thus provoking exquisitely complimentary replies...
...Windsor's finances. Bills for debts he contracted as King are being rapidly settled in London, the biggest check being $600,000 to Cartier, but beyond that nothing has been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schönbrunn; I know it so well...
...England in 1920 Parliament decided: "No action shall lie in respect of trespass or in respect of nuisance by reason of flight of aircraft over any property." The U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce has made transport flight illegal below 1,000 ft. above congested areas, 500 ft. elsewhere, except when landing. As yet, however, no final Federal decision has clarified the mass of contradictory lower court opinions on property rights v. air rights...
Such death would make 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth...
Japanese politeness when one is winning or has won seemed to account for a silky statement by that fiery militarist whose rambunctiousness in Parliament provoked the crisis, General Count Juichi Terauchi. "There is talk in the streets," softly ad mitted the Count, "but the Army has no intention of carrying out a Dictatorship or a Fascist regime...