Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the secret and mystic meaning of your picture (TIME, Oct. 1) of "Jix" (British Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks) with the caption...
...most British of Britons, famed Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, went out to Hunterston Castle, Ayrshire, and verbally propped the prestige of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Supposing that the legal limit were six children, and supposing that twins should be born to Their Majesties, who already have five children, then the position of Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be that of his hypothetical nurse...
...must not therefore be censured, but added that the procedure ought to be modified to protect from embarrassment or indignities innocent persons summoned to the Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes...
...William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary: "Unless the nations of the world follow the example of Great Britain and show a real desire to curtail their armaments, the compact will be nothing but a hollow sham...