Word: marquessate
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...things of the first magnitude were done last week by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, whilom Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21) and Viceroy of India...
...Belgium named as her new Ambassador to the U. S. last week M. Paul May. "M. May," exulted the Jewish Telegraph Agency, "will be the first Jewish ambassador in Washington since the Marquess of Reading represented England here during the World War. M. May is married to a Rothschild." He is at present Belgian Minister to Brazil. ∙Recently returned to Germany after conferences with U. S. financiers and a chat with President Hoover, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht expressed a most significant opinion...
...James Louis Garvin of the famed independent Observer extended helping hands last week to a young wedded couple whom most other British editors were roasting alive: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, both Socialist M. P.'s, she rich with the millions of her late, great father Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.* "Sir Oswald Mosley has taken his political life in his hands with brilliant fearlessness," wrote Editor Garvin. "He is the only leader of his generation who has the courage to strike out a new path." With 15 fellow M. P.'s including Oliver Baldwin (Socialist...
...Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs (former Viceroy of India, representing the British Liberal Party...
Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...