Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain gave to India during the three Round-table Conferences, the sittings of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament and the interminable debates in the House of Commons that preceded passage of the India Bill in its final form. The controversy shook the Conservative Party to its foundations; Stanley Baldwin staked his political future upon pushing the new Constitution through...
...miracle of persuasion," to which dignitaries of His Majesty's Government looked this week to bulwark the prestige of Stanley Baldwin on the eve of his slated retirement from the post of Prime Minister next month, must now be worked by Viceroy the Marquess of Linlithgow, and great should be His Excellency's reward for quick success...
Alighting from an ordinary railway carriage, the King of the Belgians drove straight to his Embassy in London. There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Opposition Leader Major Clement Attlee, a few such fascinating British parliamentary figures as Winston Churchill, plus a British Foreign Office contingent: Mr. Eden, Lord Cranborne, Mr. Orme Garton Sargent, etc. etc. After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the evening drew aside and got down to cases with the British expert on the issues in question, Mr. Orme Sargent...
This was difficult, since British editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members...
...court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...