Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gasped as decorous debate on George V's Speech from the Throne (TIME, Nov. 16) was interrupted with flagrant (but accurate) lèse majesteéby "Old George" Lansbury, new floor leader of the beaten Labor Party...
Labor's formal but innocuous attack on the Speech (written of course not by King George but by Scot MacDonald) was launched by Labor M. P. Sir Stafford Cripps, an alert "comer" now forging to party leadership. Sir Stafford moved an amendment to the Throne Speech regretting that it had "omitted all items of socialistic legislation," saw his amendment killed by the crushing Government majority, largest in British history (TIME...
...Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...
...Throne Speech, In his gilded coach & six George V clattered to Parliament, wrapped himself in regal robes, clapped on the Empire's sparkling crown, grasped his sceptre and seated himself on Brit ain's Throne in the House of Lords. Standing in a subway crush behind the bar of the House of Lords, eager M. P.'s squashed each other in their efforts to hear His Majesty read a speech written by Scot MacDonald: "My Lords, Mem bers of the House of Commons. . . . My Government is giving particularly close attention to . . . the approaching Disarmament Conference...
...your issue of Sept. 28, under the heading Japan-China, the first paragraph contains this sentence: "When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town...