Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little fancy groaning. Merchants were huffy because their fellow citizens could visit the U. S., bring home $100 worth of purchases duty free. Farmers groused because U. S. fruits and vegetables had been given reduced duties. In Ontario, the region most affected, it was believed several Liberal members of Parliament would desert the Mackenzie King government when the trade treaty comes up for ratification in the Dominion Parliament. Said the Winnipeg Free Press...
...Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), while the other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people by rewarding...
...formal agreement by Canada not to use certain powers under her tariff laws to value imported goods at arbitrarily high prices, a practice that has done as much as high tariffs to discourage U. S. trade. Finally the Mackenzie King Government promised to sponsor a bill in the Canadian Parliament to permit Canadian tourists in the U. S. to take home duty free $100 worth of U. S. goods...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this week Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was to hold a great meeting featuring the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian Parliament, and other members of the international team of Oxford Groupers who lately worked in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 14 et ante). And last week Groupers told the Press about one of their most spectacular conversions to date. A textile manufacturer of Rotterdam named Dr. Roessingh, said they, lost his fortune when England went off the gold standard. Turning his talents to invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts...
...fortnight onetime Member of Parliament is Cyril Atkinson who at 61 sits upon the King's Bench Division of Britain's High Court of Justice. Fond of golfing, fishing, motoring, he has to remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when...