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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nodded approval as the Ministry of Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Stiffened with chivalrous disapprobation as Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones twice called Viscountess Astor a liar while she flayed corruption alleged to exist in his constituency, West Ham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Week in Parlament | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...182Noted that Lady Astor remained straight lipped, even when Jones achieved the excruciating West Ham witticism of shouting at Home Secretary ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks: "You're getting coal every day from filthy German Huns to break the coal strike! All right! Get your coal from Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Week in Parlament | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...menu: Breakfast- Rolled oats with milk and sugar, Parker House rolls, butter, coffee and jelly. Dinner-Fried pork chops, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, bread, cottage pudding and coffee. Supper-Cold lunch, ham, stewed fruit, bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mules | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Jumping Jack" Jones (Tipperary-born, but M. P. from West Ham since 1918): "I refuse to withdraw it. I now gladly leave this House." (He pointed at the Ministerial bench on which sat the Premier and several of his Cabinet.) "You are all murderers! The, whole gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: One Hour More | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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