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...Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent a dastard Laborite from laying hands on the sacred Mace last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), that in the General Election this naughty varlet (Laborite John Beckett) lost his seat...
...Snatch!?moral Miss Edith Picton-Tubervill tried to grab a green bookful of Irish Sweepstake tickets away from jovial John Beckett in the House of Commons? but Jovial John held on tight...
Twice in three weeks has the hoary House of Commons been publicly outraged. No sooner had horrified Briton's gooseflesh subsided over Laborite John Beckett's "Rape of the Mace" (TIME, July 28) than the nation shuddered again. One Elijah Sandham, Liverpool Laborite, stood up in the House and said...
...Fiercely booed John Beckett, the Labor M. P. who last fortnight picked up for a moment and thereby "desecrated" the Mace, when he resumed his seat...
Hours later Mace-snatcher Beckett rose to put (ask) a question, as he had every right to do, but subsided blushing when the House with one voice roared: "Sit down...