Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sherry until 4:12 a. m.-the latest session of the House of Lords since 1887-as Labor peers asked endless questions anent the "Sedition Bill" (TIME, Nov. 12), all courteously answered by Viscount Hailsham, His Majesty's Secretary of State for War, once famed as Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg (TIME...
...Rejected (219-to-47) the proposal for national lotteries which passed the Conservative Party Congress (TIME, Oct. 15), but was turned down on second thought by the Party chiefs. Sententiously, pious Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour reminded the House that "in the past British lotteries became most vicious...
...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
...hours after the start of the Milden-hall-to-Melbourne Air Race three weeks ago Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australia's No. 1 airman, took off from Brisbane for California. Had he finished the flight the day Britons Scott & Black reached Melbourne, he would have shared their world headlines. As it was, he and his Lockheed Altair, Lady Southern Cross, did not reach their destination until last week...
...Sir Charles' motor was hardly cold last week before one Tom Catton slapped the plane under attachment, claiming $1,750 and interest for services allegedly rendered at the time of the West-East flight...