Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
...bills. In London slums, Government inspectors have reported up to ten residents per room. Last week Sir E.'s new measures contained emergency clauses to prevent police from cracking down unjustly or too soon, but breathed the urgency of prompt building action. For the first time Parliament will be asked to vote a nationwide uniform building subsidy. In England and Wales this may mean to the owner of a new house a maximum of $25 per year from the Government for 20 years, plus $12.50 per year for the same period from local public funds. In Great Britain...
Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
...Reform hinted in the Speech was the Bennett New Deal, a hodge-podge of Rooseveltisms blended with reform proposals lifted bodily from Canada's Liberal Party, the opposition led by former Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King. In a Montreal speech two nights before Parliament opened at Ottawa, Premier Bennett, one of Canada's wealthiest capitalists, denounced prosperous ex-Premier King as "entrenched behind the forces of Capitalism!" Amazed Liberals accused the Conservative Premier "not only of stealing our clothes but of trying to wish his old clothes off on us." Conservative henchmen were jubilant. Resigned until recently...
Next night as Parliament caught its breath, Lord & Lady Bessborough held the "Drawing Room" equivalent in Canada to presentation at Court. Flanked by a galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare...