Word: parliament
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...bill was introduced into Parliament (but mercifully unpassed) that provided: "All women of whatever rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wood (rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors...
...party's files, later arrested three of the party's top leaders. Explained Whitehead: "The policies of the N.D.P. are blatantly militant and anti-European." Whitehead's action needed no explanation. His United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. With the chaos in the Congo seemingly confirming the worst fears of white settlers in both major parties, Whitehead knew that...
...Canadian Parliament's least happy duty is to act as a divorce court for the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. It is an arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The sole ground for a parliamentary divorce is adultery. Over the years, as the number of petitions grew (to more than 600 this year), Ottawa tacitly winked at its suspicion that Montreal detective agencies were doing a lucrative trade arranging the evidence. But last week an aggrieved husband named William Eccles blew...
...change in the law. A House subcommittee summoned the cast of the Eccles case to Ottawa for a hearing. The verdict: Lise Eccles' divorce was denied, and the case was turned over to Mounties for possible prosecution for collusion and perjury. A cry is now being heard that Parliament should disentangle itself from divorce entirely and turn over its jurisdiction to a responsible court...
...signed a 50-year contract with Premier Patrice Lumumba to act as adviser for the development of the new nation's mineral, oil, gas and hydroelectric-power resources. Through the company he organized only a month ago, called Congo International Management Corp. (CIMCO), Detwiler hopes-if the Congo Parliament ratifies the deal-to mastermind projects to build airports, pipelines, highways and hospitals in the Congo and to train the Congolese to run them. Crowed Detwiler: "We have rescued the Congo...