Word: staffords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manhattan on business, lean, red-mustached Liverpool shipowner Major Leonard Cripps, taller, elder brother of tall Sir Stafford Cripps, waved away midsummer heat with his handkerchief, waved away his brother's socialistic notions as well. Of his brother, Social Security Planner Beveridge and their "sentimental" followers, the Major remarked: "In the country of mad hatters, I mean Britain, they're destroying civilization by giving away all this blasted money...
...constitutional reforms for Jamaica's consideration (TIME, Feb. 22). To demonstrate political unity, Jamaica's Governor Sir Arthur Richards publicly shook hands with Norman Washington Manley, democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion of public works to reduce unemployment, said that a minimum...
...Amonth before the U.S. went to war, Eve Curie took off for 40,000 miles of United Nations fronts, key cities, outposts. She talked to R.A.F. pilots, battle-bitten Free Frenchmen, Italian and German prisoners, Russian women, army doctors, machinists, a ballerina, Mohandas Gandhi, General Sir Archibald Wawell, Sir Stafford Cripps and Jawaharlal Nehru ( who described his career as "the popular and widely practiced profession of gaol-going"). Asked Eve Curie:" How do you react to the term Dominion Status? "Answered Nehru: " It makes me slightly seasick...
...letters and a package and it wasn't your birthday...and the armed foroes we are leaving behind us... Now don't let us get mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean Colgate becomes Mrs. Lt. (ig) Charles Stafford, and at our, Anchors Aweigh Soiree the night before we shove off. So its Hedzup! and eyexs front toward ports now unknown...
...errors and ineptitudes had been fatal, the Conservative Party would have died in 1939 and 1940. But the Tories survived and thrived. Early in 1942, when Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps emerged as the white hope of a new deal, the Tories took him into the Government and then swallowed him up. Now Sir Stafford was useful to them. Last week, as Minister of Aircraft Production, he took the slings and arrows for the Government's seizure of inefficient Short Brothers, Ltd. (Sunderland flying boats, Stirling bombers...