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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...
Transatlantic radio failed Lady Rhondda last week, and her voice was unintelligible to the Conference. An advance copy of her speech was read by Irita Van Doren, editor of the Herald Tribune's Books Supplement. Her text was the inscription at the base of the statue of Nurse Cavell who, before she was taken out to be shot as a spy, said: "Patriotism is not enough." Her theme: "The one thing that matters more than all the rest is international relations...
...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...
...Everyone either works or is kept by someone else!" snapped Lady Rhondda in a statement to reporters. "It is strange that Mr. Thomas, a Socialist, should be advocating idleness for any section of the community. It is ridiculous to say that it is against the interests of the nation for women to work. ... Is it fair to expect a father to support a family of grown up daughters...