Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Underwriters against new and higher taxes (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice Sir Samuel Lowry Porter...
...Arizona; Mrs. Henry Noble MacCracken, wife of the president of Vassar College; Mrs. Henry Guggenheim, wife of the onetime Ambassador to Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman; W. Farrar Vickers, British businessman; Sir Philip Dundas,of Edinburgh. Likewise present were the usual Oxford Group retired generals, admirals, sons and daughters of Anglican bishops, Scandinavian lawyers, reformed...
Died. Charles John Baron Darling of Langham, 86, witty dean of His Majesty's High Court of Justice; in Lymington, Hampshire. Upped to bench and knighthood in 1897 when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
Most famed, but far from the finest golf course in the world, St. Andrews in Scotland is a public links. An act of Parliament few years ago prevented indignant townsfolk from seeing tournaments played there for nothing. No act of Parliament has yet convinced the St. Andrews town council that Sunday golf is a fit pastime for right-thinking people. On Sunday the course is closed to golfers, open only to picnickers and strollers. Last fortnight St. Andrewsites, sprawling comfortably on the fairways, chatted cheerily about the tournament to be held there the following day. With no U. S. titans...
...many fighting words the Irish have bandied with other people and themselves, one of the most actionable was Parnell. At the height of his power the whole Irish nation swore by him, and in Gladstone's Parliament his power was so great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell...