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...onetime First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24), Colonial Secretary (1924-29), wartime Secretary of State for India and Burma under the Commonwealth (1940-45), author (Empire and Prosperity); in his sleep at his home; in London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grâce to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason...
Around Tweed in Tammany Hall revolved the infamous Tweed Ring. Among the other ringleaders: City Chamberlain Peter ("Brains") Sweeny, whose mistress was a masseuse in a Turkish bath; City Comptroller Richard ("Slippery Dick") Connolly, and Mayor Abraham Oakey ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, who wrote a play called Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother, and who, while District Attorney, gave a dramatic reading titled Dido versus Aeneas, an ancient breach of promise trial...
...Vice President Richard Nixon banned umbrellas, because he felt that they would have recalled the pre-World War II appeasement policies of Great Britain's umbrella-carrying Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain...
Could Shakespeare read? The ability to read, after all, is about the only equipment, apart from being able to write, an author needs. Author Hoffman skips over this question, but he agrees that the records show that Shakespeare, in 1594, was listed "as an actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Company of Players." This suggests : (though not to Author Hoffman) that Shakespeare had at least learned to read well enough to master his parts...
...Chairman Chamberlain easily had the last word: "In the Congregational Church we're all just ministers. But a woman does have one advantage. She can always talk to the 'mums,' and it's the mums who matter. I think it's the mums who set the spiritual tone of England...