Word: parliament
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PARIS, Nov. 19--France's Parliament, rallied by the nation's hurt pride over U.S.-British arms shipments to Tunisia, gave Premier Felix Gailard a resounding vote of confidence tonight by a 256-182 vote...
This was the Assembly's last meeting. Next February it will be replaced by a new parliament with authority over the Common Market and Euratom projects too. Said Pope Pius XII to the delegates: "The Coal and Steel Community has placed Europe on a new road leading to infinite promise...
...Parliament's opening, Britain's Queen Elizabeth 11, her words coming both for and from her ministers, announced that the Tory government will shortly introduce legislation creating lifetime peerages for both men and women. Such a law, if passed, would for the first time in history plunk "lady lords" down beside gentleman lords in Britain's Upper House.* This stratospheric feminist victory was hailed by "delighted" Virginia-born Lady Astor, 78, bodkin-tongued widow of a viscount and first woman to sit in the House of Commons. With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said...
...unlikely to criticize the Emperor's activities very strongly for some time to come. The constitution makes the Cabinet responsible not to them but to the Emperor, gives him the power to appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make a complaint or get a petition past the Emperor's guardian bureaucrats was to toss the document into...
Died. Mrs. Martha ("Mattie") Louise Munger Black, 91, sharp-witted onetime Tory member of Canada's Parliament, hard cussin' ("I'm no lady"), Chicago-born "first lady of the Yukon," who took off for the Klondike gold fields in 1898, prospected, managed a sawmill, was elected an M.P. from the Yukon in 1935; after long illness; in Whitehorse, Yukon...