Word: hogg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservative, pro-Chamberlain candidate was the Hon. Quintin McGarel Hogg, 31, making his political debut. Son & heir of the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
When ballots were counted, 12,363 were for The Master and 15,797 for Mr. Hogg. Said he modestly: "It is not my victory but Chamberlain's." Six more by-elections will be run off in Britain during the next few weeks and at these the public's estimate of Munich will be further tested...
Cabinet Shifts. Viscount Hailsham gave out some time ago that once his son the Hon. Quintin Hogg was elected he would retire from public office. This week Lord Hailsham was succeeded as Lord President of the Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely...
Creator of such familiar personalities as The Toonerville Skipper, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less familiar but equally profitable creation of Cartoonist Fox known as Reynard Corp...
...Matthews' enterprising pressagent, Tom Barrows, declares that Actor Matthews sends his starched linen to Baikie & Hogg, Ruchill, Glasgow; his unstarched laundry to Prospect Cottage, Bushy Heath, England; adds that Mr. Matthews "used to use the American Banker, a ten-day boat, but now uses the Queen Mary because he has only two shirts...