Word: bumbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the most uncharacteristic article TIME has carried, approaching fatuity in some of its uncritical assertions. I can not imagine my favorite editors becoming sycophantic, but if that write-up is not a press hand-out from His Majesty's Bureau of Canterbury Tales, then I am Bumbler Baldwin. Well do I realize that you must depend upon some source for the validity of human-interest reporting, but what proof has TIME that neurologically unstable George VI "today is a better pilot than King Edward ever was?" Or that he excels the Duke of Windsor in any important...
...excited political circles talk was veering around from the urgent rumors fortnight ago that "Bumbler Baldwin" could not much longer remain Prime Minister, to the opposite notion that the Arms Boom is creating an elated situation in which, no matter what he does or says, he will be as popular as Herbert Hoover...
Whether or not Britain's Prime Minister can accurately be called "Bumbler Baldwin" has been a grave Empire question to which Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., last week gravely addressed himself in the House of Commons...
...distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House of Commons lobbies heard for the first time serious talk that the long British political reign of Squire Baldwin, famed "archtype of John Bull," could be considered as drawing to its close...