Word: mcgovern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State...
Cried Laborite Jock McGovern, "This Government has been run by Laurel and Hardy! They have changed places and Hardy is now Prime Minister. Then they have brought in a member of the former Prime Minister's family - they have brought in Jackie Coogan as Colonial Secretary...
Even more embittered than Scot Jock McGovern, Welshman George Daggar snarled: "The passing of the former Prime Minister will do no harm. Some of us would like to read the news in the paper that he had done the best thing, that is, go out and hang himself...
Since such readiness to give away British territory profoundly shocked the Commons, Scottish Laborite James McGovern scored more than a laugh off the National Government by shouting, "Suppose we give Ethiopia the Irish Free State...
...days later suggestions that His Majesty proclaim an amnesty in celebration of his Silver Jubilee this spring were icily rebuffed from the Government Bench by Scottish Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, not in the least disconcerted by Laborite McGovern's bluster. "Regardless of what other countries might do in similar circumstances," said Sir John, "Britain must adopt her own custom...