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Closer questioning showed that he still favored boycotting the Indian Legislative Councils set up by the Montagu Reform Laws, as he still believed that Indians "should not participate in the councils until Britain suffered a change of heart...
...after ten years of preparation, Charles Montagu Doughty, poor, not in the best of health, alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself...
...Franklin is the daughter of the first Lord Swathling of England and sister to The Honorable Edwin Montagu, late Secretary of State for India. She has spoken on educational work in all the leading cities of Europe and has been active in such work for 30 years...
...great nephew of Dr. Montagu Butler, late master of Trinity College, W. D. Macpherson, is the representative of Cambridge University, and will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A graduate of Harrow, he won a "First" in the History Tripos at Trinity and was a member of the Pitt Club. He won his colors in the first Trinity boat, was captain of the Real Tennis Team (called in America Court Tennis), and Racquets champion of the University...
...Amery as First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame as President of the Board of Trade, Neville Chamberlain as Minister of Health, Edward F. L. Wood as President of the Board of Education, Sir Robert A. Sanders as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sir Montagu Barlow as Minister of Labor. Baldwin combines the Chancellorship of the Exchequer with the Premiership for the time being. This is the first time that the two offices have been held by one man since 1880, when Gladstone combined them for the second time...