Word: sankey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialist Speech. This was the first Parliament ever opened by George V with a Labor Cabinet in office. His speech from the throne was therefore the first ever written for His Majesty's utterance by Socialists.* It was noticed that as the Socialist Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, knelt and presented the speech his hand trembled. Grasping the document firmly the King-Emperor began to read in a voice which, when he was not clearing his throat, rang loudly and distinctly through the oblong, Gothic hall. Excerpts...
...opening of the Labor Government's first Parliament (TIME, July 15, 1929) the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, substituted for George V, still convalescent, read Socialist MacDonald's first speech. Labor's first government (TIME, January-November 1924) witnessed no opening of Parliament...
Imperial Problems tackled by the Constitutional Committee of the Imperial Conference, sitting last week under Lord Chancellor Sankey, include...
Then came the Speech from the Throne, which according to custom was written by Prime Minister MacDonald, read by the Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey. His Majesty was made to express "profound satisfaction" with the results of the London Naval Conference,? evacuation of the Rhineland, reparations settlement at The Hague. He concluded with earnest prayers and pious hopes?and Parliament was over...