Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria's parliament last week, Foreign Minister Vassil Kolarov introduced a bill to close down religious organizations with "foreign ties." The bill described the Soviet-controlled Orthodox Church as "the People's Democratic Church...
...Maoris, the visitor was Te Rangi Hiroa (The-Heavens-Streaked-with-the-Sun). The outside world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until...
...Aute College for Maoris, where he made top marks at both books and sports. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Otago in 1904 and went back to his mother's people as a government health officer. In 1909, he was elected to Parliament and soon became a member of the cabinet. In World War I, he won the Distinguished Service Order as second in command of the Maori Battalion...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...
...roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...