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Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
...defeated Conservative candidate, J. M. Pike, scathingly recalled how Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia (Curzon) had poured out Curzon gold in the campaign, adding: "The electorate seemed to have be hypnotized by Mosley's worldly possessions. The main lesson of the election is that the conquest the Labor party by wealthy aristocrats has begun...
Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter and heiress of the late famed Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, continued her stump speaking at Smethwick near Birmingham (TIME, Dec. 20) in behalf of her husband, Oswald Mosely, who is seeking election to the Commons as a Laborite. Since both Oswald Mosely and his wife Lady Cynthia are regarded as dilettante Laborites, the jeers of the press were loud last week when Mr. Mosely's father, Sir Oswald Mosely, a peppery Conservative, attacked his son's candidacy as follows...
...taunted Oswald Mosely with stooping to call Lady Cynthia "the Missus" for campaign purposes. That lady, indefatigable, harangued a Communist meeting; with a red flag in her hand, led the singing of the International, walked to the edge of the Smethwick slums, was whisked to her hotel in a Curzon-bought Rolls-Royce...