Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easier to list those he did not know than those he did. Member of no literary school, he was on friendly terms with such irreconcilables as the Sitwells, H. G. Wells, Shaw, Noel Coward, "Max" Beaverbrook, T. S. Eliot, Otto Kahn, Winston Churchill, Andre Gide, John Galsworthy, Lord Birkenhead, George Moore. He liked most people. Of an evening when Shaw was present he notes: "Shaw talked practically the whole time, which is the same thing as saying that he talked a damn sight too much...
Aged 50, the 11th Marquess of Lothian is supposed to be "the best brain at the India Office since Lord Birkenhead." Using this brain, Lord Lothian produced what seemed to many Britons a brilliant, simple and eminently workable plan for enfranchising more Indian women. At present 21 times more males than females vote in India. Under the Lothian Plan, persuasively expounded to the Conference by Lord Lothian last week, the wife or widow of every voting Indian male would be automatically enfranchised. What could be simpler or fairer than that...
...youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that soon after he began practicing he was earning the fashionable income of ?30.000 per year. "Figures spoke...
What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...
Observers, scanning similar (though less grave) riot reports from Birmingham, Birkenhead. Croydon and other centres concluded that as winter comes the British jobless are getting mass-ugly, losing what trust they had in the MacDonald National Government, turning again to the British Labor Party which last week held its annual congress (see below...