Word: hailsham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into public service in 1961. As an ambassador at large, Harriman conducted the sensitive negotiations that brought about the 1962 Geneva accords on Laos. A year later, he represented the U.S. during the nuclear test-ban talks and initialed the treaty with Andrei Gromyko and Britain's Lord Hailsham-perhaps the high point of Harriman's career...
...proceedings turned particularly lively with the appearance in Plymouth of querulous Quintin Hogg, formerly Lord Hailsham, one of the more erratic of Tory politicians. As Minister of Education and Science in the Conservative Cabinet, Hogg was routinely telling his audience about the superior virtues of the Tories when a heckler shouted: "What about Profumo...
...consistent heckling of virtually every political leader has brought responses which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
Britain's Science Minister, the former Lord Hailsham, who renounced his viscountcy in order to run for Parliament, last week also lost his unofficial title as the Tories' champion vote getter. As plain Quintin Hogg, he won a seat in the Commons from London's solidly Conservative St. Marylebone (pronounced Marrerbun), a well-to-do residential district that encompasses Lord's-the Yankee Stadium of cricket-as well as medicine's Harley Street, Elizabeth Barrett's Wimpole Street and Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street. However, Hogg carried the constituency with only...
...most popular Tory leaders, elfin-faced, effervescent Viscount Hailsham, last week followed the example of former Lord Home, signed away his titles and became the Right Honorable Quintin Hogg. Leaving the "political ghetto" of the House of Lords, he will probably be elected to Commons from St. Marylebone, a solidly Tory, London constituency. "Lord Hail-sham," said he, "is dead. God bless Quintin Hogg...