Word: mcgovern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same offense as radical Independent Laborites Buchanan and Campbell Stephen, the Conservative occupant of the chair showed favor by merely chiding Mr. Cocks for using the word "liar." Taxed with favoritism, the Speaker sniffed: "I have to deal with cases as I find them." This touched off John McGovern, a third Scottish Independent Laborite famed for having once loudly abused King George (TIME...
Fresh bedlam broke at this but the Speaker grimly got a vote of 262-to-11 suspending Mr. McGovern, who by this time had called King Edward a ''despicable individual" who was stingy with his mother Queen Mary. Tempers passed the boiling mark and His Majesty's Loyal Opposition started shouting, "Baby Starvers!" and "Dirty Rats!" at His Majesty's Government as Scot McGovern walked out past Sir John Simon snarling at the impassive Home Secretary, "Everybody knows you're a liar...
Died. Joe Humphreys, 63, famed sports announcer and onetime (1900-07) manager of Prize Fighter Joseph Terrence ("Terrible Terry") McGovern; after a heart attack following a long illness; in Fair Haven, N. J. In his 46-year career Announcer Humphreys estimated that his huge, raucous, indefatigable voice had been heard by 100,000,000 spectators at New York prize fights, theatres, rodeos, ball games, carnivals, races, funerals. He scorned loudspeakers, earned $25 for ordinary and $100 for championship fights, invented a system of hand-wavings to show a fighter's exact weight, made a prizefight crowd...
...Daddy Judas brings him home," and "Al Jolson and Sonny Boy!" were among the more abusive comments of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. As Father & Son stiffly and swiftly withdrew, Scottish Laborite John McGovern roared after the Secretary of State for Colonies: "He's following his Dear Old Dad, though he doesn't know where he's going...
William M. McGovern, lecturer on Government, who will do the work originally assigned to Max Lerner, who was granted a leave of absence to become an editor of the Nation Magazine...