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Birthday. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, thrice Premier of Great Britain; 70; in Stourport, England. Crippled by rheumatism, he sighed, "I am not making any more speeches this year...
...about the time when the former Prime Minister was doing his stopping and starting turn in the aisle of the House of Lords, 62-year-old Arthur Annis was found dead in his London office. He had been political agent for the Conservative Association of Bewdley, had managed Stanley Baldwin's election campaigns in that constituency for 28 years. Day prior. Arthur Annis had remarked to a friend: "When you lose your boss after 28 years you realize you're getting...
After mature deliberation Sir Stanley Baldwin, K. G. announced that his new title would be the Earl Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale and not Bewdley as most Britons had expected. Bewdley, the district in Worcestershire which Stanley Baldwin represented continuously in Parliament since 1908, was closely connected in the minds of British cartoonists with the pigs Squire Baldwin has long raised there. To bear the courtesy title of Viscount Corvedale at once is Earl Baldwin's Laborite Son Oliver who remains, until his father's death, eligible for the House of Commons...
...verdant Severn valley of England where still survive the genial, autocratic Squire and the great yet cozy country house, lies Bewdley, one of the safest Conservative constituencies in the Kingdom. Its Parliamentary member for the last 28 years has been Stanley Baldwin, now nearly 70, and younger members of the Party say he would understand more of their troubles "if the P. M. ever had to fight for his seat, instead of just standing in Bewdley." To its homely broad-brogued farmers the Prime Minister went last week to confirm what everyone knew -that he is about to retire from...
When newspapers containing accounts of the Prime Minister's speech reached Bewdley, his birthplace, a "Stability Baldwin" rally was held by the Venerable Guild of Bewdley Clay Pipe Makers. While guildsmen puffed their long-stemmed clay pipes, a onetime Mayor of Bewdley, Joseph ("Fiery Joe") Oakes, declaimed the speech entire, only stopping now and then to puff, at a pipe, which he said, "Was first smoked by Stanley Baldwin himself, when he was last among...