Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viceroy of India last week admitted at Calcutta that "some concessions" will have to be made to the Indian Nationalism, which for twelve months he has been trying to stamp out. Meantime, in London, before adjourning for the holidays, the Indian Round Table Conference decided "in principle" that the upper and lower houses of the new Indian Legislature which they are trying to create, shall be called the "Senate" and .the "House of Representatives.'' The Irishmen asked independence but were content with the "Irish Free State," which has a "President" and a "Senate." If Indians would be content...
Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...Laborite, Premier Lang has found every Socialist bill he has tried to pass blocked by the Legislative Council. In New South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough...
...South Wales, to which Premier Lang plans an appeal, held "that the Consitution of New South Wales requires a specified manner and form for the passage of legislation abolishing the Council, which form in our opinion is a referendum." Observers doubted whether, now that abolition of the Upper House is impossible without a referendum, Premier Lang's 60 lady friends will ever become Councilors...
...converted into Houses are raised from twenty-five to over one hundred percent above the rates which were charged us as Freshmen. The rates have been raised in some cases $180 higher for double suites and $120 for single rooms. Pray tell, is it a working theory that the upper-classmen, have heavier wallets than have the new-comers to this university? Or have we to pay the extra sums for the privilege of being in "Houses" with a Master and all the rest rather than in plain "dorms...