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Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
Died. Princess Elizabeth Bibesco,* 48, acid-penned, socialite British author (Portrait of Caroline), daughter of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (Herbert H. Asquith, Prime Minister 1908-1916), wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S. (1920-1926), who nearly got called home when she "intervened" in U.S. politics by urging the 1924 election of Presidential Nominee John W. Davis; in Bucharest, Rumania, while listening to a news broadcast...
...policy included the Beveridge Plan for full employment (TIME, Nov. 20), a housing program calling for 750,000 new houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than...
...Some other Union officers: Lords Asquith, Curzon, Birkenhead, Tweedsmuir...
...umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store...