Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotland April Fooling is called "hunting the gowk" (cuckoo). Last week on All Fool's Day His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons made of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a prime cuckoo...
Politely last week the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still...
...British Press promptly nicknamed Lord Eustace "Stanley Baldwin's Thinking Machine." The Thinking Machine's first published thought was the announcement that the then Assistant Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was "the greatest diplomatic genius this country has produced for a generation." Since then Lord Eustace has painstakingly bombarded every other ministry with elaborate projects on what they should do for the next six months. Nobody paid any attention. Resigning last week he wrote Prime Minister Baldwin: "Let me assure you that I am in complete accord with the foreign policy of the Government, but I have always regarded...
...Yardling team of Dee Kellehen, Ralph Harris and Stanley Herzfeld supported the affirmative of the subject, Resolved, That the Supreme Court should be divested of its power to declare acts of Congress void. Kellehen delivered the rebuttal...
...Stanley A. Miller '38 will play the part of Jack; Michael Linenthal '37 will appear as Algernon; R. Thomas Fels '39 as Dr. Chasuble; Irving H. Chase '39 as Lane; and James P. Osbourn '38 as Merriman...