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...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
Reading, Rothermere & Beaverbrook. A Jew who became Lord Chief Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere...
Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
Married. The Marquess of Abergavenny, 75, famed landowner (50,000 acres) of London and Tunbridge Wells, England; and Viscountess Hardinge, 59, widow of the 3d Viscount Hardinge; in London. The first wife of the Marquess died in 1880, the second last year...
Shocked Britons of the Carlton ended by dismissing the wedding as rather an "Irish Bull," since the bridegroom's father, the Marquess of Headfort, is a Senator of the Irish Free State...