Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...Other and even more weighty Britons than the editor of the Times joined cautiously last week in the strange game of saying things off the record which they knew would be rushed into print outside England but not inside. Thus the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, one of the Empire's greatest legal minds, while refusing to address himself to the judicial aspects of a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson, intimated that already His Majesty's conduct is fairly disgraceful...
...Home Office informed the House that gas masks at the rate of 2,000,000 per month will soon be available for distribution free to the 45,000,000 subjects of King Edward in the United Kingdom "in the event of an emergency." The Home Secretary Sir John Simon, speaking in behalf of his bill to ban the wearing of "political uniforms" (TIME, Nov. 16), told the House with an owlish air of knowing more than he could reveal: "Information has reached me which goes to show that both in the case of Fascist and Communist organizations, their funds have...
...British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, whose party holds not a single seat in Parliament, cracked back from his five-story Fascist Headquarters Building: "We demand that Simon produce his evidence. It is utterly untrue that the British Union of Fascists receives money from foreign sources! This looks to me like part of a frame-up by Parliament to get their bill through and fix Fascism if they...
...Simon &Schuster...