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THE VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA
THE FUTURE is to be discussed this evening by a woman who always wanted to do something that mattered. She became her father's business associate and went to his offices at the Cardiff docks at a time when women were almost unknown there.
In March, 1915, she went with him to America ; in May, on the way back, they were both on the Lusitania when she was torpedoed. The speaker this evening was sucked down by the liner, rescued by a small patrol boat, and left on deck for dead. She went ashore at Queenstown Harbour in a British Warm.
During one of her father's absences in America she held his power of attorney and put through a £100,000 deal. She was at the Ministry of National Service when he was, first, President of the Local Government Board (now, thanks to him, the Ministry of Health) and, afterwards, Food Controller. She who had been a militant Suffragette had the satisfaction of sitting on numberless boards of directors with the equality of a man.
Margaret Haig Thomas , as she had been born, became the Viscountess Rhondda when her father died in 1918.

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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