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...Masses spoke stringy-haired James Maxton, most embittered of Scottish Laborites. "Many of us have asked in this House for bread for the poor," he cried, "and we have not gotten it. But you!" ? gesturing toward the Government Bench ? "Where it was a question not of bread but of this manuscript the thing was bought fast enough...
...Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press of Viscount Rothermere, Protege Duff Cooper publicly declared that "Lord Rothermere hasn't got the guts of a louse!" (TIME, March 23, 1931). Last week he turned with scorn no less withering upon James Maxton...
...Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
...gave Governor Gardner a "live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
Lean, long-haired James Maxton, M. P., famed for his fiery leadership of Britain's Laborite left wing, fidgeted like a schoolboy when he was told that Sir John Lavery, famed painter of beauteous women, had called him "the most remarkable man in the House of Commons" and wanted to do his portrait. Protested he: "I've never had my portrait painted, I might not like it, or, which would be worse, I might not be a good sitter. He might make me too like myself...