Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WESTWARD PASSAGE-Margaret Ayer Barnes-Houghton Mifflin...
RETURN I DARE NOT-Margaret Kennedy-Donbleday...
...Author- Margaret Kennedy (Mrs. David Davies) dictated stories before she could read or write, wrote her first novel, Laura, at 15. She burned it soon after, as she did four more novels, three plays. She went to Somerville College, Oxford, sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with...
Married. John Logic Baird, 42, Scottish "Father of Television," managing director of Baird Television Ltd.; and Margaret Cecilia Albu, 24. British concert pianist; in Coney Island...
...Laborite of whom the U. S. public has ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...