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More important doings were in Birmingham's Town Hall. There Son Neville was none too subtly reminding Britons that both he and his father had gone from the mayoralty of Birmingham to Empire greatness. Said he: "Joseph Chamberlain upheld municipal work as one of the noblest and most useful avocations that any man or woman can follow. He upheld it as an invaluable school of preparation to those who might desire afterward to enter a larger field and engage in national activities." Wiseacres suspected Son Neville meant by "larger field" the House of Chamberlain's first Prime Ministry.
*Shoemakers whose guild name was corrupted from Cordovan (Spanish) leather.