Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forefront of Liberalism. In 1902, he was made a Privy Counselor. Three years later, he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a position he held for a longer period than any statesman since the beginning of the 19th Century. His good work was recognized by Premier Asquith in 1912 when the King was advised to bestow upon him the coveted Order of the Garter. For the rest, his record in the interest of peace is well known. He retired in 1916, broken in health; and a grateful King made him Viscount Grey of Fallodon...
Margot, famed wife of ex-Premier Herbert Asquith, turned her pen to journalism. In the New York American, she explained "Why My Husband Made MacDonald Prime Minister." According to Margot, it was because a Conservative-Liberal fusion was impossible, positively dishonorable, so her husband decided to throw the weight of the Liberal Party behind the Laborites. Speaking for the Liberals, she concluded: "With courage and patience we hope to avoid what a Centre Party would certainly create-the folly and danger of seeing all the rich pitted against the poor...
...Paris (French)?Robert Underwood Johnson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Princess Bibesco, daughter of Mrs. Margot Asquith and wife of the Rumanian Minister to the U. S.; Jo Davidson, famed U. S. sculptor...
WIND'S END−Herbert Asquith−Scribner's ($2.00). Margot in her famed autobiography referred to her stepson, Herbert, as the poet of the Asquith family. Poet Asquith, who is also a barrister, has written a story of violence and mystery. Perhaps, in his decision to burst into prose, he was guided by his father's self-admitted passion for mystery stories; but certainly he has not been able to capture the ex-Premier's brilliant style, nor distinguish himself by wielding an audacious pen after the manner of his stepmother. Wind...
...obstacles only have slightly deflected Marconi's smooth advance: conjugal difficulties (in 1915 he married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien who gained a divorce in April, this year), and a commercial scandal in England. In 1912 it was charged that Premier Asquith, Chancellor George and other Cabinet officers had profited improperly through promotion of the Marconi companies. The conclusion of the matter was that blame could not be attached to the inventor and that the Cabinet members had merely been "indiscreet...