Word: birmingham
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Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter and heiress of the late famed Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, continued her stump speaking at Smethwick near Birmingham (TIME, Dec. 20) in behalf of her husband, Oswald Mosely, who is seeking election to the Commons as a Laborite. Since both Oswald Mosely and his wife Lady Cynthia are regarded as dilettante Laborites, the jeers of the press were loud last week when Mr. Mosely's father, Sir Oswald Mosely, a peppery Conservative, attacked his son's candidacy as follows...
...when analogous overproduction occurred, the relief cry was "Buy a Bale." The present cry is "Wear Cotton." Last week the only woman judge in the South, Virginia Henry Mayfield, at Birmingham, put out a reason: The adoption by southern women of more cotton clothing, instead of sensuous silk, would reduce work in the divorce courts; the return to past styles would give contentment in the home and aid to the farmer...
...report that school authorities in smoke-hung Birmingham, Eng., had investigated the hygienic qualities of window glass constructed to permit the passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight and found this glass so far superior to common panes that they had ordered it installed in all Birmingham schools (TIME, Oct. 18), had prime interest for U. S.* glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight...
...glass used in Birmingham was "Vitaglass," a true glass of high quartz content invented by one F. E. Lamplough, M. A., Cambridge University, made in a factory in Birmingham...