Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion came after brittle, over-bearing Home Secretary Sir John Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer, claimed that jobless men will get more benefits from the dole as administered by the National Government than they do in the radical municipality of Glasgow...
...robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little...
...House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know to be a liar...
...time had called King Edward a ''despicable individual" who was stingy with his mother Queen Mary. Tempers passed the boiling mark and His Majesty's Loyal Opposition started shouting, "Baby Starvers!" and "Dirty Rats!" at His Majesty's Government as Scot McGovern walked out past Sir John Simon snarling at the impassive Home Secretary, "Everybody knows you're a liar...
Head of this rich, state-protected bureaucracy since its inception has been a shambling, pugnacious, 6-ft. 4-in. Scot named John Charles Walsham Reith. Knighted in 1927, Sir John is monarch of all he surveys in Broadcasting House, the big white B. B. C. building which dominates Portland Place and, in the interests of acoustics, is sealed like a tomb and ventilated like a submarine. So obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that...