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Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...
...Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, son-in-law of the late, great Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, ordered out all available troops and armored cars, but these forces could not do more than check the rioting in restricted areas, though they did prevent the killing of even a single occidental civilian...
Engaged. Richard Kidston Law. reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, son of the late British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law; to Mary Virginia Nellis of Rochester...
Married. Nourah Chard, private secretary to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister of England; and Sir Ronald Waterhouse, London investment banker, onetime private secretary to Prime Ministers Bonar Law, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin...
...every other political fund, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, for well over a century. ... As for the honor lists* during my Premiership, they were prepared by the chief whips in the usual way. They were then submitted to the joint leaders of the coalition, myself and Bonar Law, and afterward Sir Austin Chamberlain,? who succeeded him. We sat together in joint meeting to consider and settle those lists. The claims were urged on purely public grounds. . . . During the existence of the National Liberal Party, until after the general election of 1923 the fund was administered by the whips...