Word: bridgeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative Members (bursting into cheers en masse) : "Shame on the Laborites! Baldwin for Britons! Silence! Order! Hurrah! . . ." Joseph Batey (Laborite, rising to filibuster against First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman) : "I will not permit the First Lord to speak! I will shout down any man who attempts to speak for this bill...
...Jumping Jack" Jones (passionately) : "Mr. Bridgeman, you are a murderer...
...order to prevent yearly friction between the Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after...
First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman and the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, threatened to resign unless more warships were built. They based their stand upon the indisputable fact that the existing fleet would in a few years be obsolete unless replacements were made more rapidly...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin, fearing the miner's threat of a general strike on Aug. 1, appointed W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, to mediate between employers and employed. Mr. Bridgeman was, however, unsuccessful, and the Government named a court of inquiry to make an investigation into the causes of the mining industry dispute...