Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
This drew from Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain a brisk defense of his ministry culminating in the words: "For the British Government war with the United States is unthinkable and the prospect of war with the United States or preparation for war with the United States never has been and never will be the basis of our policy in anything...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
...possible to present such a story pictorially without loss of its beauty and danger of controversy when the lapse of years has made it history, but for himself Sir Austen feels it is more beautiful in memory than any picture could make it. He must frankly say that he feels the strongest repugnance to its cinema production...
Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...