Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archer '30, B. V. Atherton '32, N. F. Bacon '32, J. T. Baldwin '30, C. E. Bell '31, A. C. Booth '30, J. M. Bradley '33, G. W. Briggs '31, J. P. Cowin '32, Eustis Dearborn '32, E. K. Djerl '30, R. O. Edwards '31, O. W. Eiseman '30, J. W. Fleming '30, J. R. Frothingham...
When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like...
...Prime Ministers) tried to convince the House, last week, that they had intended and longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour-grape theme was kinetic Liberal David Lloyd George. But turgid, bumbling Conservative Stanley Baldwin was long-winded, unsporting. He congratulated Mr. MacDonald on having "taken the first moment that had been possible in recent years to make his visit. It could not have been done by any Government until the actual time he went!" Mr. Baldwin even suggested, "although I am not greedy...
...House of Lords, the big, sharp-tongued Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India in the late Baldwin Cabinet, sneered that the Labor Government "have mishandled the Indian situation in every conceivable way at every conceivable stage. . . . They have been frightened by the threats of Indian extremists. . . . Their explanations of what they have done have been confused and mutually inconsistent...
...Parliament's bull-of-the-week was made by famed Philip Snowden, crippled, drawn-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. He referred to former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now a mere Conservative M.P.) as "the Prime Minister," then clapped an anguished hand to his forehead as the House burst into goodnatured roars...