Word: hore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
Whatever the King's subject accustomed to a ''Free British Meal Table" may think of the new tariff barriers raised by the Ottawa Conference, it seemed last week the best of all possible pacts to Leslie Hore-Belisha, Financial Secretary of the Treasury. Said he: "Failure of the Ottawa Conference would have meant the end of the Empire. . . . Dissolution of the British Empire would have meant dissolution of the world. . . . We have avoided that...
Married. Peter Llewellyn Davies, London publisher, original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...