Word: parliament
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...nothing had happened. At his regular hour of 9:20 each morning last week, the man who had just been picked as national leader of the Liberal Party and who would take over as Prime Minister in a few months, showed up for work in the almost deserted Parliament Building. He read briefs from his External Affairs staff, conferred with colleagues, dictated answers to some of the 1,500 wires of congratulations he had received. There were few interruptions and few visitors. One evening Madame St. Laurent dropped by, and they strolled across the street to dine in the stuffy...
Returning to their seats in the Chamber, they attacked the government for railroading the reform bill through the Congress before the country had a chance to study it. "We are watching the destruction of Parliament," cried Radical Deputy Alfredo R. Vitolo. "Remember a whole generation was lost in order that we should have this Constitution," warned Raul Urgana. Another Radical shouted: "We want a reform for the people and not for the President." From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 2:50 the next morning the opposition fought a futile delaying action. Then the bill was passed...
Died. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham, 78, scholarly, Liberal younger brother of the late Tory Publishers Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere (London Daily Mail), longtime Member of Parliament (1906-22), short-time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1919-22); in London...
...bristling, mustachioed Sammartino to defend himself, he spoke with measured insolence. "We have not come here to do obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...
That was all Cripps needed. He promptly arranged matters with Hoffman-and told the press about it before he told Parliament...