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...Welcomed tolerantly Miss Margaret ("Our Maggie") Bondfield, onetime chairman of the Trades Union Congress when she was returned to the House of Commons by 18,866 Wallsend Laborite votes, as against 9,839 polled for a Conservative and 4,000 for a Liberal opponent...
...gospeling from the platforms could have been heard Margaret Bondfield, leader of British working girls. Lady Astor is one of the supporters of the movement, but her Parliamentary duties prevented her from joining the marchers. On arriving in broiling Hyde Park, the processions were met by actors, dancers, children, who gave a symbolic pageant representing the coming of peace. The speeches delivered, the dancing over, a resolution was adopted urging the government to settle all disputes by arbitration. The lady pilgrims expect that law will, or, at least, "should take the place...
Miss Margaret Bondfield Labor...
Paradoxically enough, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Britain's first female Cabinet minister, is no modernist. Far from praising the onward rush of women to what they joyfully term "emancipation," Miss Bondfield dealt the modernists last week a snappy slap, declaring that homemaking was the greatest art to which a woman could rise. Said she: "The fact of the matter is that a large number of women are not fit to be homemakers because they have never addressed their minds to it as a vocation. They have regarded it as merely an opportunity to satisfy instinctive cravings, to express themselves...
...snappy slap from Miss Bondfield...