Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor v. Majesty. Both His Majesty and His Majesty's National Government have been denounced in the House of Commons before, but never quite so abusively as last week by Glasgow Laborite John McGovern: "His Majesty's Government are crooks! The MacDonald Government are a Gutter Government! I say that the Royal Family are part of a parasitical class which is living on the common people of this country...
...Abuser McGovern was urged by a fellow Laborite, as the Speaker tried to stop him with cries of "Order! Order...
...your class goes to war," roared Scot McGovern at the Government Bench, "I hope the workers will use their rifles on the ruling classes! . . . We pay King George ?10,750 per week*. . . We pay ?25,000 yearly to the Duke and Duchess of Kent- or a shilling per minute!- and when a child comes they will get ?10,000 more. . . . I tell you that instead of spending still more money on the King's Silver Jubilee, black flags should be hung out as mourning for the common people who are being destroyed...
...Learned that Scotland Yard has assigned a special guard to John McGovern, M. P., onetime plumber, the Scottish Laborite who shouted insulting remarks at Their Majesties during the opening of Parliament...
...First was the late James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, son of a San Francisco livery-stable owner. First "Young Corbett" was George Green of San Francisco who thrashed Mysterious Billy Smith for the welterweight championship in 1897. "Terrible Terry" McGovern lost his featherweight championship to the second "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell...