Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorce. Shoals of British dignitaries had audience of Edward VIII that day, the Court Circular released next morning was one of the longest of his reign, and the Court staff congratulated themselves on a good job. It was next the duty of His Majesty to prorogue Parliament after its short session last week and reopen it again this week, each time with a Speech from the Throne...
...House of Commons last week, British tradition insured the hearty cheers by all parties with which the Prime Minister was greeted on his return to Parliament. A few minutes later his Cabinet's continued refusal to sell arms to the radicals of Madrid caused radical Labor M. P.'s to shake their fists at Mr. Baldwin and shout at his Cabinet, "Butchers! Murderers...
When a Labor M. P. asked whether, "in view of the great public interest," a newsreel could be made of Parliament in action, the Prime Minister growled...
...King George employed the pronouns "we" "us" and "our" in addressing his Lords and Commons, but King Edward insisted upon "I," "me" and "my" in the Speech from the Throne proroguing Parliament, which was read last week, in the absence of His Majesty, by the Earl of Onslow...
...aristocratic race drivers, they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House, the 52-year-old Earl...