Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will of the people will be the deciding factor," President Paasikivi had promised the two million Finns who trooped quietly to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...
...fourth session of Canada's 20th Parliament had been a bore from the start. Its chief issues: the shortage of U.S. dollars, freight-rate increases, the $2,175,000,000 budget. All had been handled the easy way, by voting "yes" to the Cabinet's decisions. The high cost of living was talked about by everybody, then sidestepped; so was the touchy subject of Canada's ban on margarine...
...committee's recommendations, certain to be made law at Parliament's next session, had a practical side. Supporting the Indians is a heavy burden. From $5 million in 1936, the cost has risen to $22 million this year. Since the Indian population is increasing at a rate of about 1,500 a year, the oldtime policy may soon cost more than the country can afford...
Today the weathered, reddish-grey walls of the abbey's gate tower are flanked by modern lecture halls and a swimming pool. But students proudly point out their abbey's heavy-beamed library, in which Parliament sat during the 17th Century's civil wars. A public (i.e., private) school for the past 25 years, St. Albans now takes in some 450 boys, nearly all sons of townsmen, at a modest tuition of ?15 ($60) per term...
...streets, moneylenders, tailors and haberdashers swarmed around him dunning him for their pay. After he lost his fortune he set himself up as a gambler in his own right, became wealthy, bought race horses and got a new mistress. The Prince of Wales campaigned for his re-election to Parliament, and traded mistresses with...