Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abdication (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.) Last week the Prime Minister did what he could to evaporate this popular view by submitting to the House of Commons a White Paper intended to "do something" for the Depressed Areas and based in great part on the advice of Sir Malcolm Stewart. It was he whom King Edward summoned just before leaving London on his last slumming tour to South Wales. Mr. Malcolm Stewart, as he then was, had long fought what seemed to him the do -nothing -for -the -Depressed -Areas policy of the Government. Sir Malcolm was knighted...
...fight today at the drop of a German helmet, according to idealistic young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, fresh last week from vacationing at Monte Carlo. Some of his friends keep telling him there would have been no World War if in 1914 his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, the late Sir Edward Grey, had told the Kaiser what Mr. Eden is always telling Der Führer and told him again last week in the House of Commons, namely: "Our arms might and would, if occasion arose, be used in defense of France and Belgium, against unprovoked aggression in accordance with...
Referring to himself and to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary Eden concluded "and so I think the parallel of 1914 does not stand at all in the sense that we have not made our position clear." On the Continent Mr. Eden's words were taken as a declaration no less ringing and personally sincere than he made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political...
...heartiest laugh in which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has indulged in many a long day came as Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip, a great churchman who received his appointment in part because of the influence of churchly Mrs. Baldwin, arose to address the House of Commons. Although it contains both male & female M. P.'s the Prime Minister could not avoid bursting into a loud guffaw as Sir Thomas, a tyro at politics but a veteran speaker at Sunday-school picnics, opened an address to the House of Commons with the unheard-of salutation: "Ladies and Gentlemen...
...alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...