Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for a Study. Despite its crystal days & nights, Beirut was not entirely free of haze last week. On the southern outskirts of the city, past Parliament Square, where a bemused policeman stood directing traffic with one hand and counting his beads with the other, delegates from 44 countries were gathered for the third annual conference of UNESCO (the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Their purpose was to remove all global misunderstandings...
Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
This week, before setting out to win friends in the Maritimes, the Drews stopped off in Ottawa to settle the business of George's seat in Parliament. A safe one was found: the Ottawa south riding of Carleton, where Tory Russel Boucher agreed to step down. In 25 elections Carleton has returned Tories 25 times, including Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden. The Drews could take that record as a good omen...
...soon reiterate his perennial offer to resign because he has "lost the Mandate of Heaven." This time Parliament may take him up on it. To fill such a vacuum, the Communists have scheduled a convention for January to form a democratic front government with the liberals now in the national regime...
Parker was instrumental in organizing and setting up the program of the Labor Party for the election campaigns of 1945. During this campaign, he was elected to Parliament by one of the largest majorities received by any candidate...