Word: stanleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula of "honorable" division of Ethiopia "within the framework of the League of Nations." Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, however, is for keeping the ball of sanctions going a while longer and Dictator-Mussolini is all for faster spinning of the wheel by his new war chief. Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Marquess of Londonderry was resoundingly dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...
Thus was broached in paradox one of the "real issues" in British life today, all of which were dodged in the recent general election by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. So desperate are conditions in the coal fields that only some 700,000 miners remain who could vote today, whereas there were 1,125,000 in 1926-the year in which the coal strike provoked the General Strike...
Reactions of pleased students to motion pictures of real merit build up a strong appreciation from the entire audience, according to Stanley Sumner, manager of the University Theatre...
Died. Frank J. Navin, 64, since 1903 president and chief stockholder of the Detroit Tigers; of a heart attack at the Detroit Riding & Hunt Club. For $700 he bought the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb in 1905; last year he paid $100,000 for Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, manager of the team which won its first World Series last month (TIME...