Word: sankey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls each nation like each individual...
...Viscount Sankey, who in 1929-35 was the Lord Chancellor, intimated that he saw no judicial or constitutional obstacle to King Edward's marrying Mrs. Simpson if His Majesty is so inclined. Intimated the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy: "You can take it from me that the King is determined to and will marry Mrs. Simpson...
...Moody met a hymn-singing Collector of Internal Revenue named Ira D. Sankey. "Where are you from?" exploded Moody. "What is your business? You will have to give that up. I have been looking for you for the past eight years." Though they actually wrote few hymns, Moody & Sankey became as famed as Gilbert & Sullivan through promoting such collections as Gospel Hymns & Sacred Songs. At one time their hymns earned $35,000 royalties in a few months. In 1873-75 the evangelists toured the British Isles, spoke and sang before 2,500,000 people...
...Moody & Sankey made prodigious onslaughts upon the unregenerate, organized services in big cities with as many as 500 ushers, 1,000 choirsingers. In Philadelphia, they attracted 900,000 people in nine weeks. Said Moody: "It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...