Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loyal M. P.'s flayed the Manchester school inspector, London's sensation-sheets made a heroine of Moppet Maud, who was rushed to the House of Commons and popped into the visitors' gallery to hear aristocratic Major Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education, report on her case...
Said Major Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby: "The inspector did not, as one of my honorable friends has suggested, 'publicly rebuke a little child's pure and holy love of its country,' but suggested in a private conversation with the teacher that the child's essay perhaps indicated a patriotism more fervent than considered. The inspector demonstrated his own practical patriotism during the World War by serving four years in the British Army...
...world Press dithered because all in one morning last week chunky, pipe-sucking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin conferred with frail old U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and immediately afterward with hale old Banker J. P. Morgan. Supercilious comment in The City, London's Wall Street, was that most of President Roosevelt's fiscal emissaries to Europe, such as Professor Raymond Moley, have been "neither known nor trusted here" and that if the President now has any proposals to make to His Majesty's Government he could not have done better than to entrust them...
...Joseph P. Kennedy made his first appearance on TIME's cover July 22, 1935. TIME's only rule in selection of cover subjects is newsworthiness. Thus, George V and Stanley Baldwin have in twelve years each appeared five times. Four-timers are Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Ramsay MacDonald. Typical of the 15 three-timers are Pope Pius XI, General Chiang Kaishek. Two-timers number 56, include Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, Carter Glass, Huey Long, Helen Wills...
Second Recessional? Cousins are Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria...