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...Vicount Haldane, Scottish jurist, statesman, philosopher and educator, onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor: "Nobody takes the work of this House seriously (wagging a finger at the Marquess of Salisbury* Leader of the House of Lords). It is looked upon as a terrible fatality if we must continue debate after it is time for dinner...
...Cabinet roster runs to 21 ministers, with six more in a secondary category and not ordinarily present at the Cabinet table-an example, the Solicitor General for Scotland, A. M. MacRobert. Two peers hold high but chiefly honorary Cabinet rank: the Earl of Balfour (Premier 1902-05), and the Marquess of Salisbury-these respectively Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords...
...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...
...most honorable 10th Marquess of Queensberry, 31, and his lady Marchioness, 25, landed at Manhattan last week, because he is a stockbroker and she is a portrait painter. He will study U. S. financiers in action. She will paint their wives in repose...
Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...