Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Tennyson's Brook, a Persian election goes on forever, and sees, in its course, a varied scene. In April 1946, Prime Minister Ahmad Gavam first promised to hold an immediate election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads...
...House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member . . . that hors d'oeuvres is described as 'an appetizing savoury of vegetables, fish, etc., served before the first course'. . . . It would not be easy to print this shortly and concisely on the menu...
...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...
...London Daily Herald, Labor's champion, found an excuse for its behavior: "Any Government which regards Parliament as a working machine and not as a mere talking shop must clearly insure . . . thai, the necessary business must go through. Otherwise it would be possible for any disgruntled minority in Parliament to obstruct indefinitely the will of the majority. And that would be the negation of democratic government." Perhaps the Daily Herald had forgotten that Labor's parliamentary majority was elected by less than 50% of Britain's voters...
...last week the rebellion had reached clear to the Maritimes. In staid Ottawa, 500 Lisgar Collegiate Institute students paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...