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...Royal Institute of Architects. His mother was one Frances Emily Wheeler. Somewhat more than 40 years ago the then Bertrand Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among his acquaintances was a really poor bookkeeper in London, James Ramsay MacDonald. Recently the Rt. Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, told a story about both of them: "The first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying...
...confused with the Rt. Hon. Sidney James Webb, recently raised to the peerage as Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner...
...Author. Rt. Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., G.C.S.I, D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., onetime (1922) High Steward of Oxford University, Rector of Aberdeen University (1926) and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), has often lacked money but never self-possession. As all England knows he was born Frederick Edwin Smith and his first title was "Galloper," which friends and others still apply. Eloquence and legal brilliance carried him to the highest honor of the Law, thence to politics. Both Liberals and Conservatives respected his abilities but mistrusted his policies, as did all England. Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement...
...special platform were Rt. Hon. Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor; Rt. Hon. Brig.-General Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, and a fringe of subsidiary dignitaries. Bravely ignoring the gripings of acute indigestion, Commander Amy clutched a bouquet of posies, embraced her beaming parents, listened to speeches of welcome, spoke cheerily into a microphone...
...Commander Amy was even more fulsomely feted at a luncheon given by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail for "200 Britons Who Have Achieved Fame While They Were Young." Against doctors' orders Commander Amy sat in the place of honor, nibbling dry toast. Publisher Rothermere's son, Hon. Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf...