Word: strabolgi
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...Baron Strabolgi (who as Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy used to speak for Labor in the House of Commons) made the neat point that, much as Prime Minister-reject Chamberlain may hate Hitler now, his past record is so identified with appeasement that "so long as he is in the inner War Cabinet, the German propagandists will find credence for their fairy tales about Britain suing for an armistice...
...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...
...Were droning over the Private Possession of Firearms Bill when Lord Marley created a sensation by implying that Lord Strabolgi owns a submachine gun similar to those used by U. S. gangsters & police...
...agreed Lord Strabolgi, "and so under this bill I would be liable to two years' penal servitude. I think it should be amended...
...This Week. Printed in color gravure, This Week is edited by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, genteel white-haired editor of the New York Herald Tribune's magazine (TIME, Oct. 8). First issue includes fiction by Sinclair Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst; articles by Britain's Lord Strabolgi, Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, Artist Neysa McMein -big names which the average individual Sunday newspaper could not conveniently...