Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John McGovern, a Laborite M. P. who was suspended from the House of Commons in July because he refused to leave the Chamber until forcibly ejected (TIME, July 13), attempted to lead a parade of jobless dole-drawers through the streets of Glasgow last week. Police inspectors were waiting for him, told him that he could not march. The crowd of sullen workmen in grimy caps grew & grew. There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons...
...cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted him violently on the fundament, causing a painful bruise at the base of his spine...
Fighting off Scot McGovern's friends as best they could, Sir Colin Keppel & posse dragged him inch by inch the length of his long bench, dragged him into the aisle and down the aisle, dragged him to a point within the Parliament Building where they could conscientiously say, "We have removed the Honorable Member from the House...
...Scotland, where men are men, men recalled last week the last time that John ("I demand Justice") McGovern got into trouble in English London...
...That," interrupted Scot McGovern "is a damned lie." He was thereupon suspended for five days last November. Last week Mr. Speaker stated that "the Honorable Member has been automatically suspended for the remainder of the session" (probably about a month...