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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born Katharine Marjory Ramsay, the Duchess of Atholl, musician and lawn tennist, has been a Member of Parliament since 1923. Among her accomplishments are the organization of the Perthshire District Nurse Associations; the composition, for pianoforte, of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses; and the assemblage, at the suggestion of Lord Kitchener, of the world's finest collection of Scottish soldiers' stocking tops. In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Children of the Chimney | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...George Alexander Morrison, Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities, offered a teaser to test his colleagues' mental quickness, was appalled when the teaser was publicized, when his telephone began ringing as answers poured in from all over Europe. The teaser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Little Belgium. The last thing most subjects of King Edward had been in a mood to do was to read the obligations shouldered by His Majesty's Government when they signed and Britain's Parliament ratified the Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germans Preferred | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Thomas is President of the Lord's Day Observance Society. He frankly "disapproves of all Papists" and particularly of the Pope. There are, in his opinion, ecclesiastically dangerous radicals among the bishops and archbishops of the Church of England, and, when they led a great battle in Parliament to "reform" the Prayer Book in highfalutin fashion, it was the Low Church, mobilized and led politically by Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, which mightily defeated the High Churchmen and made sure that the Prayer Book shall remain unchanged for many, many years (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thinking Machine's Inskip | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Reform of Parliamentary representation had reached a dangerous high. Party lines were crumbling, there was sinister talk of revolution, civil war. Ben saw his chance. He went more than ever into society, turned his pen to Tory pamphleteering, got himself favorably known by the right people, finally stood for Parliament. He was four times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta who was his mistress for two years. He broke with her at last because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzy | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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