Word: buchananism
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...lying!" shouted George Buchanan, one of the four Independent Labor Party members in the House. When asked by the Speaker to withdraw, Scot Buchanan cried, "I can't withdraw my remark, even for you, because it's true ! The Home Secretary is not telling the truth. He is lying...
...this the Speaker asked a vote to suspend George Buchanan, but before division could take place Scot Campbell Stephen, M. P.. also of the Independent Labor Party, got up to say: "His Majesty's Government's supporters are cowardly robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little...
...this, furious uproar burst from both sides of the House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know...
Instead of calling a vote to suspend moderate Laborite Cocks for having committed the same offense as radical Independent Laborites Buchanan and Campbell Stephen, the Conservative occupant of the chair showed favor by merely chiding Mr. Cocks for using the word "liar." Taxed with favoritism, the Speaker sniffed: "I have to deal with cases as I find them." This touched off John McGovern, a third Scottish Independent Laborite famed for having once loudly abused King George (TIME...
...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...