Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Conservative who was recently defeated for re-election to the House of Commons; Vernon Bartlett, News Chronicle correspondent and independent M.P., whose recent election was a severe rebuke to the Government's foreign policy; Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, tradition-hating military correspondent for the London...
...eight parliamentary by-elections held in Britain since the Munich Deal of three months ago, the most exciting was staged last week in the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. There Her Grace, the wealthy, 64-year-old Duchess of Atholl stood for re-election on a straight platform of 100% opposition to Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of dealing with dictators. Long a sharp-tongued critic of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Duchess, one of the brainiest women in British politics, has been tagged with such sobriquets as "Red Kitty...
...West Perth and Kinross Conservative club, whose successful candidate she had been since 1923, had repudiated her, and the Duchess, backed by her wealthy, landowning husband, was seeking re-election on an Independent ticket. To assure her of Liberal and Laborite support, both those parties persuaded their candidates to withdraw. Her sole opponent was a well-to-do Perthshire farmer, William McNair Snadden, solidly backed by Chamberlain Conservatives...
When the ballots were counted the vote stood: for Conservative Snadden, 11,808, for the Duchess, 10,495. (The Duchess polled 15,000 as official Conservative candidate...
...French Riviera to spend Christmas with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, sailed the Duchess' aunt and one-time chaperon, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman ("Aunt Bessie"), from Manhattan...