Word: staffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy prizes, unfamiliar to Easterners was the winner of one of the two highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...
Since Rearmament gives so much employment at high wages to the working man, no Labor M.P. seriously opposed Rearmament in debate last week, and in The City shares in British armament and allied firms rose on the Exchange some 20%. Nobody paid much attention to Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps's remark: "We are witnessing the most magnificent subscription to a world suicide pact ever publicized by any country in the world...
From Princeton: Harold W. Dodds, J. Douglas Brown, William S. Carpenter, Edward S. Corwin, Christian Gauss, Edwin W. Kemmerer, Harley L. Lutz, David A. McCabe, William S. Myers, DeWitt C. Poole, Paul T. Stafford, Jr. and Charles R. Whittlesey...
Debate continued on the Government's announced intention to send Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to Geneva to get Sanctions lifted. Snapped Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps: "He goes as the Government's decoy duck!" Against the abandonment of Sanctions His Majesty's Loyal Opposition further battled by presenting a motion to censure His Majesty's Government. Result: victory 384-to-170 for Stanley Baldwin...
...Ellen Stafford could not understand why her husband was so enthusiastic over the secret union meetings, could not share his exaltation over the miners' congress he attended in Youngstown. She only wanted a permanent home for the children, a house where they could have real chairs instead of powder kegs for furniture. But John went on organizing, saw his best friend killed in an explosion, was nearly killed himself, was blacklisted, pondered over the program of the Knights of Labor, dreamed and talked of the union while the children grew older and the home was never made...