Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (TIME, p. 18, Aug. 9) would have been expected, except that again American engineering and manufacturing has brought cool comfort and the other benefits of true air conditioning to a tropical potentate...
Died. John Hodge, 81, onetime (1906-23) member of the British Parliament, British trade union leader, Wartime Minister of Labor (a post he was the first to hold) in the coalition Cabinet of David Lloyd George; at Bexhill-on-Sea, England...
Priests in heavily ornate robes stood in the pulpits of the principal Serbian Orthodox Churches in Yugoslavia last Sunday, and slowly read out the names of 141 members of Parliament, nine Cabinet Ministers, including that of Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich. In Belgrade stolid worshipers listened in grim silence, but in other churches congregations throughout the countryside piously ejaculated "May He Be Damned!" as each name was pronounced...
While hundreds of thousands of Orthodox adherents boasted that the Premier would have to resign in face of such widespread opposition, he remained obdurate, forbade press mention of the pulpit denunciation, refused to recognize that members of Parliament could be held responsible "by any court even ecclesiastical" for the votes they cast...
Above the green, copper roofs of Copenhagen in the grey-spired Christiansborg palace, home of the Danish Parliament, a dumpy old lady last week rapped a distinguished gathering to order. Before her sat 203 representatives from 21 nations, including France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori...