Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gossip has so rankled ruling British Conservatives as that told about the Cliveden Set (pronounced kliv-den). First to "discover" the Set was The Week, mimeographed newssheet edited by tall, lean Claude Cockburn (pronounced ko-burn), former U. S. correspondent of the London Times, at present a writer for London's Communist Daily Worker...
...supposed to be Virginia-born Lady Astor, nee Nancy Langhorne, the mistress of Cliveden and M. P. for Plymouth. Last week in Saturday Evening Post "Priestess" Nancy indignantly denounced all Cliveden Set stories. Lord & Lady Astor put in their first disclaimers last spring; he to the London Times, she to the Daily Herald. Now she gives full tongue. "Cliveden Set! There is no such thing! It is a fantastic invention. It has no existence. It never did exist." After that heated beginning Cliveden's mistress proceeded sarcastically to list those who really were...
Laborite Member of Parliament Dr. Edith Summerskill is a belligerent feminist. She is also a top-notch gynecologist and mother of two children. Her husband, likewise a doctor, works in London's famed Harley Street, where doctors' fees are reputed highest in the world. During the House of Commons' question time one day last week, Edith Summerskill, M.P., M.D., stood up and asked: "Will the Prime Minister consider the introduction of legislation to compel wage earners to disclose their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took...
...accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...
...nightmare to peace-loving Britons and Frenchmen is the vision of thousands of Nazi bombers thundering over London and Paris in wave after wave, blasting their populations to smithereens. Last September, in face of this horror, the fate of Czecho-Slovakia hardly seemed worth bothering about...