Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews. As president last week of the League Council, ruddy-cheeked Australian Stanley Melbourne Bruce was empowered to choose a new League High Commissioner for German Refugees, who will have at his disposal $16,000. The exodus of Jews from Germany was deplored by Geneva representatives of several states. "My country must serve notice," declared Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu sharply, "that it is unable to receive one single stranger more within its territory...
...caught the cold which this week, to the shock of the whole world, proved fatal. Knowing his constitution to have been weakened and his heart severely strained by his illness eight years ago, the King exerted himself before winter and its dangers should come on to have Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seek and safely win an election which entrenched the British Conservatives in power for five more years, a great satisfaction to the Sovereign...
Instead H. R. H. took the wheel of his car again, drove to the north entrance of No. 10 Downing St. just off the Horse Guards Parade. For nearly an hour he conferred with Mr. Stanley Baldwin. News cameramen, mostly the hardest-boiled of journalists, were asked by Edward not to snap him "in the circumstances." Not a single camera was raised, not a single shutter snapped...
...been generally believed that Queen Victoria was "not amused" by the Widow at Windsor and had her revenge by not appointing Rudyard Kipling to the post of Poet Laureate. In 1930, Mr. Kipling was in Bermuda when the death of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges occurred. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Kipling's cousin, had presented him to King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George...
...newspapers. A huge service requiring 25,000 miles of wire for its exclusive use, AP's financial department is headed by able young Claude Jagger. Hearstpapers feature the syndicated optimism of B. (for Bertie) C. (for Charles) Forbes and the more informative comment of Merryle Stanley Rukeyser...