Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynaud the Tiger's Cub attacked the chief eulogist in France of Britain. The better to be able to eulogize, M. Reynaud went to London and sat in the House of Commons gallery while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made Sir Samuel Hoare a scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...
...York, to be a vice admiral, a lieutenant general and a Marshal of the Royal Air Force; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
...hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated...
More nickel was consumed in 1935 than in any other year in history, Robert Crooks Stanley, head of International Nickel Co., announced last week. World consumption for the first ten months came to 133,300,000 lb., compared to 112,481,000 in the corresponding 1929 period...
...shrapnel. In 1934 Nickel's officers estimated that not more than 5% of nickel produced was used for military purposes, whereas 20% was going into automobiles. But in any wartime period Nickel's business would obviously take on a more martial air and last week Mr. Stanley conceded that some of 1935'' record-breaking consumption was caused by "certain world powers" building up their nickel reserves...