Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley Baldwin: "In his way, you know, [he] was a great parliamentarian. I mean, he played on the House with very great skill. If there was anything awkward, he'd get up and talk about airy nothings. Nothing whatever to do with it. But he'd soothe the House...
...served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
...possibility of a paratroop coup still haunts French politics. Said Consultative Committee Chairman, famed old Parliamentarian Paul Reynaud, 79, expressing the hope that the suggestions of his committee would help to get the new constitution passed, "for we know that its failure would reopen the crisis of May while depriving us of the only man who can resolve...
...tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided with a bus. Unperturbed, Sir Winston grinned at the crowds, proceeded...
...17th century England. King Charles I has put John Hampden in prison for refusing a Forced Loan, thus setting many a British taxpayer ablaze with indignation. Now, battle is joined-King v. Parliament. And though Froniga is a gypsy on her mother's side, she is also a Parliamentarian on various other sides, while Yoben is a Royalist. Enter, inevitably, Oliver Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell...