Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having lost his seat in the general election, James Ramsay MacDonald last week won another in a by-election, and the following disclosure was made by Lord Blanesburgh: "Some days before the state opening of Parliament which was canceled owing to Princess Victoria's death, the King summoned MacDonald and said: 'I think it is all wrong that you who have been Prime Minister for so long, merely because you have no seat either in the Lords or the Commons, should not be present at the state opening of Parliament, and accordingly I invite you to attend...
That His Majesty remains personally fit & fleet. King Edward showed by donning shorts in which he ran last week from Fort Belvedere three miles to Windsor Lodge. Most dignified and well received was the King's first message to Parliament, read by the Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, thrifty Sir George Penny...
...body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There are a few scattered Communists still alive, but in hiding. There are still a few liberals not yet confined to barbed-wired "camps." Factories are silent...
...reported that a Liberal Member of the English Parliament will suggest to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin next week the plan of placing British naval bases at the disposal of American warships; a proposal which, if carried out, will deeply affect the present position of the United States at the Naval Conference. The American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing...
Cried Governor Tannery last week: "The feel of gold is what our good people of France need to restore confidence and halt hoarding. The feel of gold coins! The minting of these has been authorized by Parliament and they should be placed in circulation. . . . France's future depends upon confidence. In 1935 our gold reserves declined from 82 billions of francs to 66 billions of francs but this did not result from intrinsic weakness of the franc. It resulted from speculative at tacks, investment of capital abroad - as when our citizens seized upon the recent rise in Wall Street...