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...BEVERLEY BAXTER...
...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
...Parliament some Britons felt that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
Days of Reckoning. Winston Churchill now felt "revivified and fortified." But he had only postponed the day of reckoning between Government and country. Many an M.P. felt as Conservative Beverley Baxter felt: "People have said the House consists of a lot of rubber stamps. The Government is saying to the public, 'and we will prove it,' and that is unworthy." Slim, subdued Mrs. Cazalet Keir, who never dreamt of causing such commotion, was not dismayed. She had given her vote for confidence, was glad the Prime Minister was strengthened for "the stupendous days ahead," believed equal pay would...
...Bishop's father married Maria Washington, daughter of Mount Vernon's last private owner, great-grandniece of George Washington. He begat 13 children, was the last Confederate soldier to sit in the Episcopal House of Bishops. Two sons have followed him there-Henry St. George and Bishop Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr. of Ohio. Two other sons are U.S. rectors and two more missionaries in China. Twelve Tuckers are now on the Episcopal clergy roll...