Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 100 seats from the Conservatives. They believed that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...
After this precaution the King & Queen proceeded to the annual meeting of the Manx Tynwald, claimed by Manxmen to be the world's oldest parliament. Seated on a red, canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with...
Wilkes might have fomented revolt or even revolution. But he remained cool. Let time vindicate him, he murmured. Time sent him back to Parliament, made him Lord Mayor of London...
...give each party a fair whack at radio time, BBC (in agreement with Parliament politicos) had allotted ten airings of 30 minutes each to Conservatives and Laborites, four airings to Liberals. By U.S. standards this added up to no radio campaign at all, but to those who like their politics straight, it made good sense...
...mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...