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Margaret Haig 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, pioneer feminist peeress:† "Motherhood is only a part time job,' said I last week. 'No woman,' I vigorously amplified, 'has a right to expect the community, whether through her father or in any other fashion, to keep her, if she is not giving her full day's work in return. If the small family has come to stay, then with it must come the realization that motherhood is no longer a full-time job—is not in itself sufficient to justify existence.' " The Right Honorable James Fitzalan Hope, Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons: "In the absence of Speaker John Henry Whitley, I was presiding over the House last week. Lady Astor, who has never initiated legislation of any consequence but is often naggingly sarcastic, drew from Laborite George Lansbury a rebuke: 'The noble lady would be very much more respected if she would learn to hold her tongue.' As is my duty in maintaining the traditional British impartiality of the Chair, which differs from the U. S. practice of making it an office for political shunting, I rebuked Mr. Lansbury, saying: 'That is an improper remark. An honorable member should address the chair.' 'May I ask you then,' replied Mr. Lansbury, 'to invite the noble lady to hold her tongue?' Said I sternly: 'That is not a parliamentary expression. I hope it will not be repeated.' Later Lady Astor flayed Miss 'Wee Ellen' Wilkinson, Laborite, declaring: 'The honorable lady is one of those who shout: "We don't want peace in industry." 'The noble lady,' replied Miss Wilkinson, 'should not maliciously misquote me.' Later, as Lady Astor continued her jibes at the Laboritts— Glasgow Socialist George Buchanan shouted: 'I will continue my speech if you will shut your mouth and listen. You might at least have some manners and sense. You can't stand truth. Just remember you're not dealing with your horses at Newmarket.' The noble lady subsided, and thereafter cried only 'Hear, hear!' during the session." Calvin Coolidge, President of the U. S.: "If a man makes a speech and then newsgatherers ask him to interpret it more specifically, some would say that they were either insolent or injudicious. Last week at my semiweekly conference with Washington correspondents, I was asked such a question about my World Court speech at Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, Nov. 22). In the role of Official Spokesman, I told them that I seek to make my public addresses so plain and to the point that they speak for themselves, hence I was disposed to make no comment on my recent speech."
William C. Redfield, onetime Secretary of Commerce in President Wilson's cabinet: " 'Not guilty,' said I as foreman of the Play Jury. The Captive may go on making money in New York as it did in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, as it was forbidden to do in Budapest. I can readily understand why many citizens were alarmed by the play. Its theme is the erotic passion between two women. Though unsung in the Homeric legends, Lesbianism* is mentioned frequently in the literature of later Greeks, as the opposite of prevalent paiderastia.