Word: parliament
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King Paul gave him the Medal of Bravery, and Parliament passed a law promoting Colonel Grivas to lieutenant general (only the King is a full general), awarded him full pay of $300 a month for life. Political parties besieged him to join them-but he put them off. First he had to rest, to have three teeth pulled and an injured finger treated...
...Parliament of Fowls. In Pleasant Hill, Calif., young Leslie Hylin wrote to the state Conservation Council: "Dear Sir, I would like to know if there are any pamphlets you could give me on wildlife in our government...
Stock-market shares had fallen 4 to 10 points on the news that the architect of Germany's economic miracle, and his party's most effective campaigner after Adenauer, might be lost in a largely honorific five-year job. Of the 271 Christian Democrats in Parliament, more than 120 signed petitions urging Erhard to stay at the Economics Ministry, and 46 of the dissenters warned that they would vote against Erhard at the July 1 secret ballot, ensuring his defeat for President...
Despite Ben-Gurion's personal popularity, people were beginning to grumble, and last week they could be heard. The occasion was the election of a new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish...
...these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps rightly, of encouraging the nationalists...