Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir John Eldon Bankes, presided last week over an Extraordinary Tribunal appointed by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to enquire into the circumstances of an examination by police officers at New Scotland Yard of a young woman, aged 22, who is by profession a tester of radio tubes. The motion defining the scope of the Tribunal was drafted jointly by the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir John Simon, highest feed British barrister and august Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME...
...word the police were suspected with good reason of having subjected the 22-year old bulb tester to a scandalous third degree. She, Miss Irene Savage, a cheerful, comely girl, was recently arrested and acquitted of the charge of "indecent conduct" in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde...
...this connection Sir Leo Chiozza Money sent a most significant open letter to the press last week: "I myself was asked to go to Scotland Yard in the same way. I escaped Miss Savage's unpleasant experience because I happen to know, as few people do, that the police powers are not all that they pretend to be. My solicitor informed the Scotland Yard authorities that I was perfectly willing to answer any questions they put to me at his office in front of him, but that I would not go to Scotland Yard. This offer was not accepted...
...them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
From a box near the Prince's, Sir Hugh Cunliffe-Owen, a tall, grey-haired man, wearing a white top hat and a flower in his buttonhole, pressed through the crowd to congratulate his jockey, Henry Wragg. Owner of Felstead, Sir Hugh, collected a winner's purse of $55,000. Others, humble people carrying on difficult, dull lives, with no time to go to horse-races, had won more heavily than he on Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth...