Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exalted spat was augmented when Betty Baldwin, daughter of the Prime Minister, arrived at Smethwick to electioneer for Mr. Mosely's Conservative opponent, one M. J. Pike. That same day Betty's brother, Oliver Baldwin, like Oswald Mosely a Socialist son of a Tory sire, hurried from London to champion Socialist Mosely. Finally the Mosely cohorts were swelled by onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald (Laborite). Smethwick bums and paupers cheered with loud good humor the stump speeches of this galaxy. Smethwick brats were soundly kissed by apple-cheeked Betty Baldwin and peftte Lady Cynthia Mosely. Betty Baldwin taunted Oswald...
...many a South African Boer* the possibility of disunion from the British Empire and a return to Republicanism seems an ideal not hopelessly remote from attainment. Therefore when General James B. M. Hertzog, Dutch-descended Premier of South Africa, returned last week from the Imperial Conference at London (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) all Cape Town awaited eagerly his first pronouncement. . . . Would he advocate disunion...
Significance. The speech of General Hertzog created a sensation because of its tone of loyalty to the Empire. At London Premier Hertzog fulminated so violently against the very word "Empire" that even the King-Emperor began to refer to the "Commonwealth...
...world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine Engineers. The speech would not have mattered had it not been so very typical of Baron Kylsant. Because he came to shipping not from the sea but from Newton College, South Devon, he has not the mariner's longing to do everything...
...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...