Word: simon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against the culprits appeared, last week, bristling, the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Jurymen and spectators craned forward to catch his words, for he ranks in private life with that great barrister,* Sir John Simon, as one of the few legal fencers in England whose swordplay is worth ?20,000 a year-pittance though that would be to a first rank U. S. attorney. Last week Sir Douglas Hogg adduced the testimony of faithful George Monkland and other witnesses with irrefutable force, then cried to the jury...
...last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary for War in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet. The seventh, their Chairman, the Great Liberal, Sir John Simon, several times a cabinet minister, will sacrifice for each twelvemonth that he neglects his legal practice not less than £30,000. To what end such slavery, such sacrifice...
...wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Just 102 years ago the first truly Pan-American conference was assembled at Panama City by the great Simon Bolivar, "The Liberator," whose feat in kindling South America to shake off her bondage to Europe stands indirectly alluded to by President Machado. Unfortunately the Conference of 102 years ago accomplished absolutely nothing. What will be accomplished by the Pan-American Conference...
Died. Robert Keable, 40, novelist (Simon Called Peter, 1921); at his home on the Island of Papeete, Tahita...