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...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...
...great and brilliant Earl of Birkenhead. now Secretary of State for India, recently Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), and previously the Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath...
...Birkenhead--Baker, Rogers v. Westengard--Ahalt, Caldwell
...Birkenhead--Miller, Tyler v. Sargent--Ciullo, MacKillop