Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as sporting Major Oliver Stanley, younger son of King George's sporting friend the Earl of Derby, remained Minister of Labor there was no interference with this strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been...
Last week Stanley Hoflund High, one-time foreign correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, member of the staff of the Christian Herald, tried to run these evil rumors to ground in Washington. He talked to newshawks and others who had seen the President recently. He had an interview with the President at which the "whispering campaign" came up for discussion. Then Stanley High went on the air, broadcast to the U. S. the solemn news...
Stung, new Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin boomed, "It is not true...
This gave unintellectual Prime Minister Baldwin the perfect opening for a perfect English retort. "We are being censured for not having any considered plan." said Stanley Baldwin easily. "I have never been a slave to a word. If there is a word that has been ridden to death today it is the word PLAN. I have seen nothing of planning in any foreign country that would lead me to think it is a universal panacea. I don't exactly know what plan is. For some kinds of plans there are books and pamphlets undertaking to cure unemployment...
...Strube's Little Man [see cut].* I see a small, kindly, bewildered, modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours of Strube's Little Man expand and strengthen into the firm, fine features of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. In some such outward semblance do I visualize the solidity, the good humor, the honesty, the inconsequence, and the indolence of our race...