Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement, backed by the Earl of Listowel and Lord Denman, onetime Governor General of Australia. Last week Lord Moynihan deprecated the Mail story as a cheap advertisement, said his group would put his proposition sensibly to the British public in December, try to get a permissive bill through Parliament...
...snap is a low trick, nonetheless low for being common, and it was the master's task last week to make it appear lofty. Since he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament last week a full year before its term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before...
From this Authority. Mr. Baldwin proceeded to that other British shibboleth, Precedent. "In the half century before [Macaulay] wrote, nearly every Parliament was brought to an end a year before the legal limit." he cried. "So [too] when you come to the brave days of Disraeli and Gladstone...
Meanwhile the Party agreed to leave the suppression of the Fascists to their Deputies in Parliament which reconvenes next month. To this triumph of PATIENCE no small contribution was made by Fascist de La Rocque himself last week. In a letter to Pierre Laval which was made public at the crucial moment, the No. 1 French Fascist declared: "We have no other intention than to defend the Republic. We will obey the new laws and hold our demonstrations on private property...
...rigging at one Chrysis de la Grange, a shapely girl who calls herself the world's champion twist rope acrobat, was busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing his automobile horn, this gaudy prize periodically places Donor...