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Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, 55, twice a baron, twice an earl, divorced husband of onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, owner of estates totaling 19,685 acres, exhibited last week toward the proposed reforms an attitude of flippancy...
Reprovingly replied Earl Selborne, a director of Lloyd's Bank: "By far the most potent reason why many of the noble Lords do not attend the House is they can no longer afford to come to London very often. They gave all they had to the country during the War and they are now suffering the burden of taxation...
...looks like a callow Eton schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Secretary Rt. Hon. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans...