Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood up to announce that the salaries of Members of Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could scarcely have picked a more felicitous topic...
Next morning, 14 years after he formed the first of his three Governments, 69-year-old Prime Minister Baldwin entered Buckingham Palace to hand over to King George the seals of his office. Forty-five minutes later plain Mr. Baldwin reappeared, and pulling blandly at a cherry-wood pipe, entered his car. Tucked under one arm were two framed, inscribed photographs of Their Majesties...
...appoint you Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
Over the course of years since the founding in 1908, the practice has been built up in the Administrative Offices of the College of referring any change or innovation to the Council. Many times the comments and criticisms of the Council have been prime factors in putting off the change or in modifying it. This is a valuable heritage, and if handled correctly is a potent weapon. The only caution to be spoken here is to say that the Council at such times must be sure that it has adequate facts and figures before coming to any decision; otherwise when...
...warning gun was sounded and the royal procession steamed out to the reviewing grounds. In the van rode Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the little steamer Patricia. Not as a Prime Minister but as an Elder Brother of Trinity House, he wore a uniform very much like that of a British admiral. Trinity House is the ancient organization still responsible for British lighthouses and pilotage. At all royal naval reviews the Elder Brethren's yacht has the right to pilot the royal yacht down the line...