Word: sankey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid strong cheers from Their Lordships the attempted squelching of Mr. Lloyd George was endorsed by Viscount Sankey, England's Lord Chancellor who "ventured to hope" that Lord Hailsham's warning would stop "Cabinet leakage" (see below...
This year handsome Viscount Sankey, the Lord Chancellor, had prorogued (closed) Parliament a bare five days before the King-Emperor opened it. Thus the performance last week was pure ceremony...
...Government. , -." Lord Chancellor Sankey, in full robe and wig, advanced to the throne and on slightly bended knee presented to George V the King's Speech, written every year by the Cabinet...
...save faces all around last week. Acting Chairman Viscount Sankey tried to get the Conference "down to work." Competent or incompetent, the Delegates will meet in sessions expected to be secret, will draft under British guidance a White Paper containing proposals for an Indian Constitution which will then go before the British Parliament. Knotty constitutional questions to be determined by the Conference include: The relationship between the Federal and the Provincial Units, the relative powers of Indian Legislative bodies and the British Parliament. Friends of India and Britain assume that the Constitution will be an enlightened document, according to British...
Handsome, learned Lord Chancellor Sankey was made a Viscount (only Laborite except Philip Snowden to receive such an honor). A Barony was given to another potent Laborite, Publicist Clifford Allen, Director of the Daily Herald. Lord Allen bears another distinction: he is one of the few peers of Britain ever to have served a jail sentence. During the War he was imprisoned three times as a conscientious objector...