Word: smethwick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sons of Stanley Baldwin, one daughter, one son are famed. Miss Betty Baldwin, a hearty bouncing young woman, frequently electioneers for Conservative M. P.'s. Her brother Oliver Baldwin is, per contra, the family political throwback, a Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
...Austen, elevated the eyebrow opposite to that which is clamped down over his monocle, replied frigidly: "The Right Honorable member from Smethwick* must know that the right of a state to protect its nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes...
Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
...last moments of the campaign the Premier's son, Oliver Baldwin, roundly declared: "England is nearer to revolution than ever before!" To this Premier Baldwin replied through his daughter Betty, who drove the Conservative candidate about Smethwick in her open two-seater, electioneering in his behalf. Said she: "I hope what little I could do counteracted to some extent my brother's words...
Significance. Smethwick always goes Laborite. This year it merely went Laborite a little harder than usual. That meant nothing. But it is significant that two rising young politicians like Oliver and Oswald have decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...