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Died. Margaret Grace Bondfield, so, Britain's first woman cabinet minister (1929-31) and pioneer in the British labor movement; in Sanderstead, England. Self-educated daughter of a Somerset lacemaker, she began her career as a 14-year-old salesgirl working a 76-hour week in London, soon organized a union among her sister workers. No ultra-feminist, "Saint Maggie" rose through the ranks of the male-led labor movement to head its powerful Trades Union Congress. Elected to Parliament (1923), Socialist Bondfield became Minister of Labor in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived Labor government...
...Margaret C. Bondfield, M. P. for the Labor Party, took a firm stand on the controversial Indian question last night when she asserted that the Indians must be given full governmental responsibility now, with final plans to follow with peace. Dr. Paul M. Sweezy '31, instructor in Economics, was her interviews in a Crimson Network broadcast...
...Margaret Bondfield, former Member of the British Parliament and of the Privy Council, in an interview with Professor Paul, M. Sweezy: "The British War Labor Situation...
...Margaret C. Bondfield, one-time Minister of Labor in the British government and the only woman member of the Privy Council, will broadeast an interview with Dr. Paul, M. Sweezy, '31, instructor in Economics, over the Crimson Network at 10 o'clock tonight. The general subject of her talk will be "Labor during, and after...
...serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came demure Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, birth control advocate who lecture-toured the U. S. last winter. From Berlin came Dr. Marie Munk, first woman judge in Prussia. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, women had a special building. This...