Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern by palace rule as Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament rolled into...
...leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side agreeing to form the "opposition" party...
From the White House and Canada's Parliament Hill came simultaneous announcements last week that the President and Mrs. Eisenhower-along with Secretary of State and Mrs. John Foster Dulles-will pay a neighborly visit to Canada's capital on July 8, 9 and 10. It will be Eisenhower's first visit to Ottawa since the Conservative government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was elected last year...
Died. Oscar Torp, 64, President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), onetime (1951-55) Prime Minister, who disapproved Norway's traditional neutrality, influenced its decision to join NATO; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oslo...
...second to bear the Marlborough title was no duke but a duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...