Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...
Explanations. Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was greeted by ironical Laborite cheers when he entered the House of Commons on the morning after the raid. He said...
...killed his mother with unwonted despatch and skill. He knew neither how nor why he came to kill her, he explained to the officers who arrested him, only that he found himself committing the murder. Because his explanation jibes with psychologists' theory of "automatism,"* British Home Secretary Sir Joynson-Hicks last week canceled the man's execution and ordered the Criminal Appellate Court to search for extenuating evidence...
Secretary of State for Home Affairs-Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
Baldwin, steady country squire and ironmaster; Chamberlain, austerely Victorian Birmingham politician; Churchill, hot-head of a half-dozen simultaneous careers; Joynson-Hicks, plus royaliste que le roi; Amery, implacable Imperialist; Birkenhead, a lawyer, brilliant, fashionable, yet most profound: these are Britain...