Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three: Home Secretary Sir William "Jix" Joynson-Hicks; Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...
...William Joynson-Hicks, triumphant, announced that the Evangelicals are preparing and will shortly submit their version of a revised Prayer Book...
...circumstances of an examination by police officers at New Scotland Yard of a young woman, aged 22, who is by profession a tester of radio tubes. The motion defining the scope of the Tribunal was drafted jointly by the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir John Simon, highest feed British barrister and august Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 30). As the Tribunal sat, last week, the small gallery was crammed with smartest folk, including Margot, famed Countess of Oxford and Asquith. In the House of Commons Right Honorable Members...
...Silently acquiesced, when Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
...oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest. ¶ Passed through second reading a bill which would make greyhound racing illegal unless licensed by local authorities. Speaking in behalf of the bill, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks revealed that there have been forwarded to him as Home Secretary some 1,600 resolutions adopted by groups opposed to dog racing...