Word: staffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison with The Stars Look Down, Horse Shoe Bottoms is plain and unadorned. John Stafford and his wife Ellen were brought from England to the Bottoms when Old Bill Wantling found coal there and needed skilled English miners to get it out. As long as Old Bill had control, in the last quarter of the 19th Century, the miners endured their hardships stoically, for Old Bill always listened to their complaints even when he could do nothing about them. But when the business expanded and a hard young upstart named Don Simpson, who knew a lot about business but nothing...
Others who did not vote for the $250,000 Jubilee appropriation included Sir Stafford Cripps and militant Laborites who are grooming him for Prime Minister Voluntary censorship kept the vote off all news service wires...
...Party wanted it more potent than rich Sir Stafford Cripps who, although he is a graduate of swank Winchester College and a bencher of the Middle Temple, stands as far Left as any Briton will go who still recoils from Communism. Sir Stafford and his Leftist "Socialist Leaguers" wanted three main points incorporated in the platform on which Labor will stand when it goes before the nation either next year or in the 1936 general elections: 1) cooperation with the Communists. 2) immediate abolition of the House of Lords, 3) confiscation of industries, banking and estates without compensation...
...year-old secretaryship of the Party without, however, losing his influence in the Party's affairs. But even more formidable than these antagonists were Britain's 6,500,000 Laborites themselves of whom nearly two-and-a-half million sent postcards to the conference voting against Sir Stafford's proposals. Deluged by this repudiation, Sir Stafford was content to take a comparatively minor place in the Party's national executive committee, thereby giving Labor a united front far different from the faction-riddled Conservative Party's, and making it clear that for the present, at any rate, he endorsed...
...LEROY STAFFORD BOYD...