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...Viscountess Astor, American-born British feminist, gave the Plymouth Museum the dress she wore as the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons...
Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
What little excitement the closing days of the campaign held was provided by pugnacious, Virginia-born, Viscountess Nancy Astor. For several days Britain debated whether or not: 1) Lady Astor had knocked a Labor organizer's hat off at Plymouth. 2) Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Paul Phipps, had received a nasty blow in the pit of the stomach from a young woman Laborite carrying a baby...
...Reassuring was the departure from Buckingham Palace last week of Their Majesties' only daughter, Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles. who returned to her country seat, Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. Throughout the King's illness Princess Mary had constantly remained with the Queen...