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...churches in the City. Rector Sanders of All Hallows-on-the-Wall urged that all but four or five City churches be closed on Sunday. "On a recent Sunday," he exclaimed, "my congregation consisted of half a dozen adults and a small party of Girl Guides!" But Rector Sankey of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe disagreed, said that all City churches should be "red hot missionary centres for the conversion of London...
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...