Word: bondfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...public has ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...
...House of Commons. Liberal Lloyd George was still sick abed and Sir Herbert Samuel represented him in the new group. Meanwhile London soothsayers wagered that as soon as the emergency was passed Stanley Baldwin would become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor were held over among the Laborites. A gaping vacancy was left by "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the Foreign Minister, who could not bring himself to swallow the projected cut in the Dole...
...This sum will last until next January if we have only 2,500,000 unemployed," said the Minister of Labor, Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield. "With 2,750,000 unemployed it will last until November; and with 3,000,000 it will last until October...
...Most potent is Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, His Majesty's first female Minister of Labor...