Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State for Foreign Affairs. Last week, however, Mr. Baldwin did not go so far as to turn Mr. Eden out and restore Sir Samuel to the Foreign Secretaryship. That would have been crass...
...secretary, Mr. Oliver C. Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved, though quite unofficial, scroll declaring...
...secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice Sir Samuel Lowry Porter...
Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...
...upperclass London this tag now designates Lieut. Colonel the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Bart., of No. 18 Cadogan Gardens; and a very short search at the Foreign Office would discover "The Man Who Was Wrong" in upperclass eyes, Captain the Right Honorable Robert Anthony Eden, today His Majesty's Principal Secretary...