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...STAFFORD FERRAR POTTER...
...convert. This premium, Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons, would be paid because of His Majesty's Government's "moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed...
...Middle West just after the Civil War. Mary Hunter got off to an apparently crippling start. But she had the virtue of independence: at 7 she had made up her mind to be a writer, to write "all kinds" of books. The family moved to California. Mary married one Stafford Wallace Austin. She soon found out what he was like. "That nothing in Mary's married life turned out as she expected it was due in part to discoveries she made within the year, which it would have been convenient to have made earlier. The first of these...
Died, Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford, 12th Baron Stafford, 73; at Swynneron Hall, Staffordshire...
...tower-builders were in a hurry to dedicate their work and get away. Mrs. Stafford wanted time to buy her boys their school clothes. Captain Bartlett wanted to get away before the autumn freeze. Dr. Belknap wanted to get down the Greenland coast to Kraulshafen to get on with his part in the Second International Polar Year...