Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smoking." The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin could not retreat from London, but he retreated as far as he could into homely reticence and obfuscation at No. 10 Downing St. With the peace of Europe at stake, according to all the newspapers Squire Baldwin does not read, attendance by the Prime Minister as the League Council convened in Queen Anne's Room at St. James's Palace would have been in accord with British tradition. He stayed home...
Proceedings were opened by the statesman whom alphabetical rotation had made President of the League Council at this session, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, High Commissioner in London of the Commonwealth of Australia and onetime Premier. In a few words Mr. Bruce voiced thanks to the King for having loaned a portion of his residence to the League. It was not felt necessary, added Mr. Bruce, to put up "No Smoking" signs since members of the Council would realize that if they smoked this would pollute the King's hangings & rugs...
...fruitful corner of the Lord's vineyard is rich old Trinity Parish, which embraces eight Episcopal churches in Manhattan. Trinity Church gave the Diocese of New York its present Bishop, Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Trinity's Chapel of the Intercession provided Bishop Manning's cathedral with its present Dean Milo Hudson Gates. Last week another Trinity man, Rev. Dr. Wallace John Gardner, vicar of the Chapel, was offered advancement. The Diocese of New Jersey (34,567 communicants) elected him Bishop Coadjutor...
...form of a crisp White Paper of 19 closely-printed pages the House of Commons received last week a fateful invitation from the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. In a general way the Prime Minister invited a confidence vote of which the result might be to spend $1,500,000,000 as rapidly as possible for further Armament, or to spend immensely more, should His Majesty's Government think best. The White Paper was a bid to be accorded virtual carte blanche-billions for Armament, and no questions asked. In the words of the paper: "Any attempt to estimate...
Died. William Horace de Vere ("Old King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia...