Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly arrested and sentenced for this crime, they were still in jail last week ?and Scotland's eye was on the House of Commons. In its boxlike wooden hall arose a Scotsman from the banks of Clyde, John McGovern. "The sentence on those four lay preachers," cried he, white-lipped, "was cowardly and brutal!" Turning upon William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. McGovern said: "I demand that the Government act to set these preachers free." Put off with an assurance that the Government was "investigating," Clydesider McGovern would not subside or sit down. "I demand Justice...
Sternly Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons demanded that Scot McGovern come to order. But he stood his ground: "It was no crime for those four good men to go out on the green and preach! I demand Justice...
...Honorable Member continued to ask Justice. This, in the circumstances, was intolerable. A fellow Scot, the Prime Minister, leaped up and moved John McGovern be suspended. "That's about all you can do nowadays!" jeered Scot McGovern at Scot Ramsay MacDonald. By a count of 315 to 16 the House promptly voted suspension of John McGovern, but John still stood his ground. "Wring his neck!" advised a Conservative...
...wring necks or have them wrung. It was 20 years last week since any Speaker had had anyone thrown out of the House (in 1911 the late Mr. Speaker Gully had some Irish nationalist M. P.'s ejected). Last week, as Mr. Speaker Fitzroy hesitated to make history, John McGovern taunted, "You don't have to tell me when to sit down! I sit down when I please...
...caught his old legs and tripped him neatly as he tried to rise from his little wooden pew. But last week Sir Colin Keppel and his six elderly assistants in full evening dress had plenty of time. Stiff and still stood their quarry. Slowly, majestically they made at John McGovern and laid hands upon...