Word: elijah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...stand by every word of my speech," Labor's Elijah shouted back. "I go even further, I charge that there have been frequent instances of drunkenness on the Front Bench...
Abstemious Ramsay MacDonald demanded proofs, names. They were not forthcoming. The House, greatly relieved, voted 304 to 13 that Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, had been "guilty of a breach of privilege and a gross libel upon the House," merited an official censure...
...there Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, Speaker of the House, inflicted the official censure upon Laborite Sandham. Looking as dignified as anyone can under a woolly white wig with a black three- cornered hat balanced precariously on top, Speaker Fitzroy sat in his chair, faced the standing, embarrassed libelous Elijah, and intoned...
Leanard Field Hubbard '31, of Taunton, will again be manager, a position which he has held for the last year. The other officers will be Elijah Swift '32, of Burlington, Vermont, treasurer, and Charles Edward Smith '33, of Newton, secretary-librarian...