Word: sankey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines...
...95th birthday of a great U. S. hymnist, sharp-eyed, goateed George Coles Stebbins. He wrote the tunes of Take Time To Be Holy, Saviour Breathe an Evening Blessing, There Is a Green Hill Far Away, some 1,500 others. Hymnist Stebbins sang with the great Moody & Sankey revival team, whom he outlived by many years. He never counted up his output, said: "It's nothing to boast about...
...Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain's and Halifax's "failures" had embarrassed his committee colleagues.) Their Declaration drafted, they will pass it along to a group of international lawyers for checking, then try to sell it to the civilized world...