"Home secretary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... menace. Then comes the letter, with its obvious threat, and I am ordered to remain at home, under a strong guard, while he hurries off to Whitehall. You have met my father, Mr. Theydon. Do you regard him as the sort of man who would rush off in a panic to consult the Home Secretary without ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... course of their visits of inspection, they found what was reprehensible in an asylum, they could not revoke the licence which they themselves had given. It was proposed to take the power from the College of Physicians and invest it in fifteen Metropolitan Commissioners appointed by the Home Secretary.[160] ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... on which a similar writ had been granted to Mr. Bradlaugh and myself. Mr. Truelove was therefore compelled to suffer his sentence, but memorials, signed by 11,000 persons, asking for his release, were sent to the Home Secretary from every part of the country, and a crowded meeting in St. James's Hall, London, demanded his liberation with only six dissentients. The whole agitation did not shorten Mr. Truelove's sentence by a single day, and he was not released from Coldbath ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... has outlived her usefulness? The HOME SECRETARY announced that the sale of chocolates in theatres is still verboten, so the frugal swain, whose "best girl" has a healthy appetite, may ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 14th, 1920 • Various
... for the proper care of the women and the education of the children on barges was much needed, and it was successfully accomplished by our late excellent Home Secretary, who was himself one of the best "oars" at Cambridge, when the late Foreign ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor
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