Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though he were about to stage a great comeback. Attempting another John Bull he started John Blunt, which gained an immediate circulation of 500,000 by promising disclosures of hideous tortures in British jails. The campaign and circulation faded together when stiff-necked Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks proved that the hideous conditions in British jails consisted in the inability of Horatio Bottomley to obtain his Pommery 1906 and other special privileges. Six dull years of neglect and increasing poverty were followed by sickness, the application for an old-age pension (a bill that Horatio Bottomley M.P. helped...
Died. William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Lord Brentford, 66, British statesman, Stanley Baldwin's Secretary for Home Affairs (1924-29); of heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike...
Viscount Brentford, famed as Sir William ("Jix'') Joynson-Hicks during his Mrs. Grundyish term as Home Secretary (1924-29). with emotion...