Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later suggestions that His Majesty proclaim an amnesty in celebration of his Silver Jubilee this spring were icily rebuffed from the Government Bench by Scottish Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, not in the least disconcerted by Laborite McGovern's bluster. "Regardless of what other countries might do in similar circumstances," said Sir John, "Britain must adopt her own custom...
Attempting to speak next, Conservative Solicitor General Sir Donald Somervell provoked bedlam by opening with the words "You have just listened to a great speech by a great...
Last year a decision to act on this premise was taken not by Major Stanley, then Minister of Transport, but by National Government themselves. They steamrollered through Parliament last summer the new Unemployment Act, easily flattening Labor opposition. Sir Henry Betterton, then Minister of Labor, became Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board, provided for in the new Act. Presumably he would take care of any vexatious problems which might arise. It was safe to slip in as Minister of Labor the admirable young stockbroker who is Derby's son and Londonderry's son-in-law. Sir Henry Betterton...
...London it looked as if the costly, tedious and high-minded efforts of His Majesty's Government to do something for India may not get much further. In the House of Commons worried Secretary of State for India Sir Samuel Hoare could only burble ''Our policy is to do all we can by sympathetic help. . . ." Worst of all, National Government were being successfully attacked on their moderate India policy from their reactionary English rear. The situation appeared so desperate that British Majority Leader Stanley Baldwin needed all his bumbling genius for executing the maneuver known as muddling...
...joker: Statesman Mussolini is believed to have obtained a "free hand in Abyssinia" from Britain and France who need his aid in getting Germany into the Eastern Locarno. In London this week the Foreign Office announced, that Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister to Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, had instructions to inform His Majesty that Abyssinia's proper course is "direct negotiation with Italy," not an appeal to the League (of which Abyssinia is a member) or an appeal to Britain...