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...public has ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early net gain of 144 seats; Liberals 21; Independents 36. Labor lost...
...House of Commons. Liberal Lloyd George was still sick abed and Sir Herbert Samuel represented him in the new group. Meanwhile London soothsayers wagered that as soon as the emergency was passed Stanley Baldwin would become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor were held over among the Laborites. A gaping vacancy was left by "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the Foreign Minister, who could not bring himself to swallow the projected cut in the Dole...
...This sum will last until next January if we have only 2,500,000 unemployed," said the Minister of Labor, Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield. "With 2,750,000 unemployed it will last until November; and with 3,000,000 it will last until October...
...Most potent is Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, His Majesty's first female Minister of Labor...
...special platform were Rt. Hon. Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor; Rt. Hon. Brig.-General Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, and a fringe of subsidiary dignitaries. Bravely ignoring the gripings of acute indigestion, Commander Amy clutched a bouquet of posies, embraced her beaming parents, listened to speeches of welcome, spoke cheerily into a microphone...