Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scare" was set palpitating in the Commons by Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, pious and reactionary Home Secretary...
...Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. He, moderate by nature, Conservative by party, is constantly swayed toward reactionary measures by the overwhelming Conservative majority in the House of Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough and rational; but a great swath is cut among League idealists by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, a weak antidote to Churchill and Birkenhead...
Finally, the Empire's settled conviction that Stanley Baldwin always means well is as a pillar of potency to the members of his Cabinet. It enabled Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to bring off in triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral...
...mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried he: "Romish practices have been tolerated too long in the Church of England! The bishops know not how to suppress these practices and so they propose to surrender to them. Today [sarcastically] it is to those Bishops who have proved their impotence [against Romish influences] that this House...