Word: hailsham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician men of science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, who was director general...
Secretary of State for War, Viscount Hailsham, Conservative...
Dramatis Personae: Viscount Brentford (carrying a cake of soap), the Bishop of Durham, Lords Ponsonby, Hailsham, Newton...
...Viscount Hailsham, rising to get the last word in the debate for his party (Conservative): "I doubt if there has ever been made in this House a speech more equivocal, inconsistent, unsatisfactory and deliberately evasive as that just delivered by Lord Ponsonby...
...cried a score of voices until Lord Hailsham frantically waved this suggestion down. Pale but determined, Mr. Baldwin then asked for "a free hand in determining the party's fiscal policy." All in favor were to signify by raising their right hands. Short-sighted Leader Baldwin peered about the hall. "Carried unanimously!'' he announced at last, drew an exclamation resembling an oath from Baron Beaverbrook...