Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wore the uniform of a parliamentary messenger, a job for which he had been hired only a month before. Tsafendas was obviously distraught. At lunch with his fellow messengers, he had hardly touched his curry, left early without explanation. Now, as the warning bell summoned the Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested by a local newsman. "I have something to do," he muttered. Then, with a six-inch dagger concealed in his right hand and two stilettos tucked in his belt, Tsafendas walked into the chamber...
...Wilson get Smith to roll over and play dead-even for the few weeks before interest in the Common wealth conference blows over. In fact, fortnight ago Smith rebuffed some conciliatory gestures from Wilson by pressing ahead in the Rhodesian Parliament with a constitutional amendment that would empower police to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial. At that, Wilson had no choice but to call back from Salisbury the two British diplomats who have been engaged in "talks about talks" that aimed at, among other things, securing constitutional guarantees for the personal liberties of black Rhodesians...
Still, in spite of direct government intervention, not all the sprawl appeared to be reconnected. Before the workers walked out, two federal conciliation boards had recommended an 18% wage increase, 8% of it payable this year and 10% more next year. Summoning Parliament to debate the crisis, Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Liberal government sought legislation that would authorize only the 8% increase. With an eye on Canada's increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire...
...government is already subsidizing them to the tune of $100 million a year, and few politicians care to add to that cost. As a result, the next major piece of business before Parliament will be a bill, shelved two years ago after strong opposition, that cuts down on government subsidies and, at the same time, grants the railroads some relief from government control. Under this proposal, the railroads would be able to set their own rates in areas where they compete (the government would still set rates where one railroad has a monopoly). And they would be allowed to abandon...
...later, the Jews returned during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, have since blossomed into one of the world's wealthiest and least persecuted Judaic communities. By the 19th century, the Rothschilds, Montagus and Samuelses made Jews a force to reckon with in British finance. Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced to cluster together in ghettos...