Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier (defiant): "Make this bill the principal plank of your program at the general election if you choose, and we will defeat you, even though your slogan be 'Let London Walk...
...Premier (as ever, imperturbable): "I believe that the more this bill is known to the country, the more it will be supported. . . . Any bill passed just after the General Strike might have been vindictive, but this bill is not. . . . We have waited...
...Douglas Hogg: "Fourthly and finally, the Government considers it axiomatic that the bill must afford protection to Civil servants who must not be intimidated from unswerving loyalty to the State...
...with similar effect. Originally the Government contended, rather lamely, that employers simply do not lock put their men against the public interest; but when the partisan aspect of this view was flayed on all sides in open debate, Sir Douglas Hogg was obliged to promise redrafting of the bill...
...Premier: (after rehearsing the background and the bill at length) : "... The Government's mandate for introducing this bill was tha General Strike. . . . Things have drifted too far. The activities of the trade unions are shifting from the industrial to the political sphere, in which some of them are controlled by the Communist party...