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...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...
...Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles...
...looked about him with a quietly superior eye and wrote most of his first book, Futility, which, it was hoped, would retrieve the family fortunes. It was at Oxford that Gerhardi began to be unimpressed by the great ones of the earth. At the Oxford Union he heard Lord Birkenhead ("a bully of genius"), Winston Churchill ("poor stuff for a grown...