Word: bondfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. On a large number of questions there is a woman's point of view; many men differ from it, but that there is such a point of view is unarguable. Besides, in the House of Commons women have proved an enormous success, and one woman, Miss Margaret Bondfield, occupies a seat on the Treasury 'bench...
...sentiments. The most pertinent comment came from "Londoner," who conducts a column, known as "Daily Causerie," in The Evening Standard. Said he: " Why not have Lloyd George introducing the people's budget in 1909 or Lord Birkenhead's first speech in Commons in 1906? Surely Miss Margaret Bondfield taking her seat on the front bench as the first woman member of the Government would-be an even better subject for painting. . . . "The whole business strikes me as a piece of preposterous vanity. On looking at the picture, I perceive some strange details in it. Lord Astor is portrayed...
Lady Secretary. Miss Margaret Bondfield, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, is the first woman to hold a ministerial post in Great Britain. She was a delegate in 1920 to the Russian Congress of Labor Unions, a labor adviser in the British delegation to the Washington labor conference, a delegate at several labor meetings in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations. Because of the shape of her head, she has been compared to a robin. Said Lady Astor: "'Maggie' Bondfield is worth twice some of the men in the Cabinet...
...well-known London restaurant, the eight lady Members oif Parliament will sit down to a prandial celebration. Those who accepted the invitation: The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Lady Astor (Conservative), Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal), Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative), Miss Margaret Bondfield (Labor). Those to be heard from were: Lady Terrington (Liberal), Mrs. D. Jewson and Miss Susan Lawson (Laborites...