Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance, just announced, included Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe, Mrs. W. B. Wood, Mrs. E. T. Putnam, Mrs. David Cheever, Mrs. A. L. Devens, Mrs. J. T. Murray, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. G. L. Batchelder, Dean Bernice V. Brown, and Mrs. Margaret Barrett...
...convalescence began (TIME, Feb. 4). Later he gave private audience to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, heard all about the Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister of the Crown...
...fortnight ago. Few people have had the temerity to expose the amount of their trading losses, fearful of jeopardizing their credit standing. Gleeful, therefore, were newsgatherers last week to find one person who admitted her losses, flaunted the amount, even named the stocks she had had. She, a Miss Margaret Shotwell. 19, of Omaha, said that she had lost more than $1,000,000 in Montgomery Ward, Paramount, Cities Service, General Motors...
...Tobacco Heiress" began to smoke cigarets. Miss Shotwell's appearance in Vienna was a triumph. . . . Miss Shotwell's tour . . . was the event of the Riviera season. . . . The outstanding surprise of the concert world is the American debut of Margaret Shotwell. . . . Though her fortune is founded on Camel Cigarets she is being importuned to recommend Lucky Strikes. . . Beautiful . . charming . . . gowns to match the moods of her composers . . . Charming . . . buoyant. . . . She exhibits her diary as simply as a little girl exhibits a broken doll...
Coal. A colleague and reputed confidante of Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence is Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...