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Pontius Pilate-Neville Chamberlain...
Flying Buttress of Peace. The House of Chamberlain snipped and whacked away in London making shoes for 130 years. Their babes were suckled and their old folk died in bed above their shoemaking or "cordwaining" * shop. The Prime Minister today is an honorary member of the Cordwainers' Company...
...Chamberlain remained snug and cozy at No. 10 Downing Street last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which...
...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
...industrial Revolution inspired cordwaining Chamberlains to leave London and leather, start making screws in Birmingham in the Midlands, which was for them like having taken a Covered Wagon in dangerous search of Opportunity. In 1854, at the age of 18, the present Prime Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...