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...Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux; New Zealand Delegate W. H. T. Armstrong. Stanchest opponents were the United Kingdom delegates headed by Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Secretary of Labor...
With such poor debating competition as this, oldster Lloyd George came off with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that...
...Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, kept open house for the great literary men of his day (Meredith, Stevenson, Ruskin, Hardy, John Morley, Oliver Wendell Holmes). The classic dead crowded the shelves of his library. Though Virginia Woolf's experience was as restricted as Jane Austen's, her reading knew no bounds. She began early to write reviews for the august London Times Literary Supplement, and still does. When she and her husband, Leonard Woolf, founded the Hogarth Press (1917), they began by publishing limited editions of such promising newcomers as Katherine Mansfield. John Middleton Murry...
...Woman. Of the Englishwomen of letters before Virginia Woolf (Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes) none had her advantages. She was brought up as a young lady of the Edwardian era, with all a young lady's privileges but no prunes and prisms. She was too delicate to go to school, and no Edwardian restrictions were put on her reading. She never lost her faith for she was never taught any. And her huge connection (her eight brothers and sisters had two different fathers) gave her entree into the useful worlds of English literature and English society...