Word: sankey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords- ¶ Received into their House former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who, scarcely able to support the weight of his ermine-barred, scarlet robes, hobbled painfully on his two canes up to Lord Chancellor Sankey and piped "I, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, swear by Almighty God that I will bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help...
Lord High Chancellor, Lord Sankey, National Laborite...
...still sick abed and Sir Herbert Samuel represented him in the new group. Meanwhile London soothsayers wagered that as soon as the emergency was passed Stanley Baldwin would become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor were held over among the Laborites. A gaping vacancy was left by "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the Foreign Minister, who could not bring himself to swallow the projected cut in the Dole...
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey...
...March issue of the Harvard Law Review to Justice Holmes, the University is today adding another tribute to those already paid to one of its greatest graduates. The Law Review, through the praise of its contributors, men of such international distinction as Chief Justice Hughes and Lord Sankey, Chancellor of Great Britain, acknowledges the great debt owed to Mr. Holmes both by the Law School and the profession as a whole...