Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this view is coming to be adopted even in London was shown when Prime Minister Baldwin recently appointed a commission to report upon the advisability of repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report against further curtailment; and it seemed last week that the British Empire has been definitely forced out of its monopolistic position in the world rubber market...
Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
Professor Harold J. Laski, famed political economist, released last week at London statistics showing that for the past century and a quarter 60% of all British Cabinet members have been hereditary titled aristocrats. This significant discovery was touted as proving that the British governmental system is not, after all, "democratic," as it is often declared to be. Further research by Professor Laski appeared to show that only 23 businessmen have ever become Ministers of the Crown...
Apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, was elected, last week, as was also her brother, Malcolm, to the London County Council...
...William Belden Noble Lectures for this year will be delivered by the Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, A.M., D.D., dean of King's College, University of London. Dr. Matthews is also professor of the Philosophy of Religion in King's College, chaplain of Grays Inn, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and chaplain to the King. He has written several books, among them being "Stories in Christian Philosophy", published in 1921, "The Gospel and the Modern Man", published in 1925, and "God and Evolution", published...