Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocabulary. Unfortunately, however, the Labour Party is committed to renationalizing steel and road haulage, even though this policy is now a recognized liability. On this, as on many issues, there is a sharp division between the doctrinaire socialists and the moderates. As Sir Winston Churchill, again a candidate for Parliament, observed recently, "Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk...
...spite of these dangers, however, it appears that Macmillan, "Super Mac" as he has been called recently, will reopen Parliament with a majority of about sixty-five...
...both Parliament and the press there was an immediate outcry. "What action is being taken against the people who beat Podola unconscious?" shouted Laborite Reginald Paget in the House of Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola...
...televised joint session of Parliament, scholarly, white-haired Dr. Heinrich Lübke, 64, onetime West German Agriculture Minister and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's hand-picked choice (TIME, June 29 et seq.) was sworn in as Heuss's successor. There was no pomp or strut about the transfer ceremony; 106 of Parliament's 564 vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute...
Britain's 'Erb (for Herbert) Morrison, 71, could "not sleep for worrying," finally decided not to stand for Parliament after 27 years in the House of Commons. But Socialist Morrison would not have to leave Westminster after all. As Parliament dissolved, Queen Elizabeth's dissolution honors list awarded a lifetime peerage to the London bobby's son who became wartime Home Secretary, later Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labor government. The new lord had no idea what new name he would choose. "I'll still be the same Herbie Morrison...