Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...
...bystander at a Royalist funeral procession incensed them (TIME, Feb. 24). This attack-and enemies of Léon Blum charged he was not really hurt but is dramatically "exploiting a few scratches"- threatens to figure largely in the coming French Chamber and Senate elections for which Parliament will adjourn Friday, March...
Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood, who had written himself off the dole with his book, became a public character. There was national rejoicing when it was announced that his new prosperity would enable him to marry the sweetheart of his threadbare days. This was followed by a general lifting of eyebrows when the marriage failed...
...sure to see the newsreel of the homework pother in British schools. Parliament disapproves of it, and one bright little boy suggests that there ought to be more time for football...
...dying like flies. Joseph Fels refused on the ground that charity solved no problems. Declaring that something fundamental had to be done, he made this counter proposal: "I'll give ?10,000 to pay for the removal of these dead children to the lawns of the House of Parliament...