Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Large, handsome, healthy and vigorous, Viscountess Rhondda at 51 is chairman of seven companies, director of 24 others dealing in iron, steel, coal, shipping, newspapers. As her chief occupation she regards the editorship of Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage...
...subject near and dear to the heart of Helen Rogers Reid, and on which she could have given competent testimony. But she left the symposium to her peers, notably three women who spoke by radio from overseas. First of these was Margaret Haig Mackworth, Britain's Viscountess Rhondda...
...gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe at the Premier's official residence-where Premier Inukai was assassinated a year before-was given in honor of our Methodist Bishop...
Whether or not the Premier and Viscountess Saito evinced alarm, Tokyo Chief of Police Fujinuma was sufficiently upset by rumors of fresh assassination plots to have posted special police guards outside Tokyo's leading business offices, banks, the homes of Cabinet ministers and to have come himself to the residence of Premier Saito where he remained personally on guard...
...winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress Holtby was old enough to serve as a "Waac" (Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps) during the War; afterwards went to Oxford, where she took her M. A. in history at Somerville. An able speaker, a director of Time & Tide, Viscountess Rhondda's weekly, she lives a crowded, busy life in Chelsea, London's intellectual quarter...