Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strapping, 59-year-old José Tamborini is no intellectual recluse. He is exceedingly popular as a politician, and his man-to-man geniality reminds some of Wendell Willkie. No totalitarian, Tamborini has fought its virus in press and parliament for years...
...Stature. More perhaps than any other living ruler, he is the embodiment of his country. And now both King and Canada had reached another milestone. This week by Act of Parliament, for domestic purposes, Canada declared the war against the Axis officially ended and the nation was once again on a peace footing. And, as he had for more than 18 years, Bachelor King would continue to lead his country. He had led it to Britain's rescue in the war; he had led it through to victory ; now he would lead it out of war and well along...
...that March day in 1867 when the British Parliament created a confederated Canada, Britain's Lord Carnarvon had cried: "We are laying the foundation of a great state-perhaps one which at a future date may even overshadow this country." That polite nothing was now a something which, in some senses, had already begun to come true...
Challenge to Hollywood (MARCH OF TIME) is a look at Britain's new film industry and a brief examination of the economic reasons why England is attempting to rival Hollywood for both British and U.S. markets. As Robert John Graham Boothby, Conservative Member of Parliament, puts it: "If I have to choose between Bogart and bacon, I am afraid that the decision must, for the time being, be in favor of bacon...
...Teheran, capital of Iran, elderly Premier Ebrahim Hakimi and his Government churned in angry frustration. Before the Majlis (Parliament), Hakimi, himself an Azerbaijani, hotly declared his opposition to "the acts and treacherous propaganda . . . [of] a band of adventurers." Meantime, he was still trying to go to Moscow...