Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing that the House considered the National Government to be behaving in a manner anything but national, Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare cried, "The Commons must trust the Executive Department in these matters! If it is not prepared to trust the Government, the whole basis of government is destroyed." He then hinted that no actual effort will be made to settle the Ethiopian Question with a gift of British soil, Dictator Mussolini having scoffed at the idea and insisted on his own solution...
...Levy's vivid mind, gas for the stoves of London cannot be called safe from the tentacles of the New Deal. "I can assure the House," replied Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare, "that British public utilities users are amply safeguarded in this case by British law and consequently cannot be affected by operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the United States...
...Subjected His Majesty's Government to Laborite heckling on H.R.H. Edward of Wales's recent plea for stretching forth the hand of friendship to Hitler Germany (TIME, June 24) which went on until Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare declared : "I neither approve nor disapprove...
...decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
...quarter of a century Sir Horace Edmund Avory has been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge...