Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going on was an attempt by Lord High Chancellor Sankey to ease through Parliament a seemingly innocuous bill creating two new Lord Justices and empowering Viscount Sankey to name the presidents of the two Appeals Courts. Stormed Baron Hewart: '"Such an office is unknown to the Constitution and the law! If the odious features of the bill before this House are not removed, I will adjourn my court every afternoon and come here to fight them-not clause by clause but line by line and word by word!" In effect the Lord Chief Justice thus threatened...
Born. To Lady Astor. U. S.-born Member of Parliament: her first granddaughter, first child of her only daughter Phyllis and the 26th Lord Willoughby de Eresby; in London...
...present British administration is one of the most conservative of recent years. Stanley Baldwin and Noville Chamberlain dominate Parliament, backed by a docile majority. Those men could easily place a member of their own party in the premier's office. Evidently, however, they feel that Mr. MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...