Word: marquessate
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...British Cabinet's grill last week was Scot MacDonald's aristocratic social mentor, Air Minister the Marquess of Londonderry. Since breeding and habit cause British statesmen to disregard what they read in the papers. Lord Londonderry was severely blamed by most of his Cabinet colleagues last week for not informing them months ago that most of what "the newspapers" were printing about German air rearmament was true. Since Deutschland has now stolen an air march on England, the Cabinet last week could only urge Lord Londonderry to build British battle planes as fast as Britains...
...Brighton with a bottle of poison by her side. Since 1930 she had been living on $25 a week provided by the Duke's family with the understanding that she would not return to the stage and would make no effort to see her son. the present Marquess of Kildare and heir to the Dukedom...
...hailed as "the first chorus girl duchess." This was a quibble. She had been a chorus girl since the age of 13, but when she met Lord Edward Fitzgerald she had just become leading lady of Princess Caprice at the Shaftesbury, and he was not yet the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland...
...Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume...
...arrival the French Delegation made for the Savoy Hotel, as French diplomats in London always do, deeming its food the best in the city. That night Premier Flandin and M. Laval were obliged, however, to eat amid the stuffy splendor of Londonderry House because the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry have what amounts to a permanent social option on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and any celebrity guests of His Majesty's Government...