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Lady Eleanor Smith (her father, the late Lord Birkenhead, started life as plain Frederick Edwin Smith) has several claims to fame: she is young, pretty, popular; and her father's career is a dowry richer than most English girls get nowadays. Last year she staked another claim by writing a novel, Red Wagon, which became a U.S. bestseller. Now she has written another, not great but good...
...Birkenhead, Herbert T. Coker, back in England from the U. S. for the first time in 43 years, was summoned to court. In 1888 he had been ordered to pay $1 a week to a Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey for support of her child. He had never paid it, was $260 in arrears (the child had died aged five). Said Herbert T. Coker: "This is quite a surprise to me." Boomed Magistrate T. Rees: "The law has a very good memory...
...Appointed under the late Earl of Birkenhead when Secretary of State for India, Sir John Simon shared the Birkenhead view that no Indian should sit on the Simon commission, and none...
Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...
Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned...